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Fix Content-Type HTTP header issued by jekyll-redirect-from

When building a site using jekyll-redirect-from, I am encountering a strange error when redirecting from an old route of a page that includes a file extension (e.g. the-old-route.md) in the web browser.

Rather than performing the redirect to the new route, the server responds with the HTTP header Content-Type: text/markdown but an HTML document in the body:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en-US">
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <title>Redirecting&hellip;</title>
  <link rel="canonical" href="http://localhost:4000/the-new-route">
  <script>location="http://localhost:4000/the-new-route"</script>
  <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=http://localhost:4000/the-new-route">
  <meta name="robots" content="noindex">
  <h1>Redirecting&hellip;</h1>
  <a href="http://localhost:4000/the-new-route">Click here if you are not redirected.</a>
</html>

The browser shows this HTML code as text and doesn't run the redirect.

I see the same behavior locally and when the page is hosted in GitHub Pages.

When redirecting from an old route that does not contain a file extension, everything works as expected. Is this a bug with jekyll-redirect-from or are routes with file extensions simply not supported?

The page front-matter looks like:

---
layout: some-layout
title: A Page
permalink: /the-new-route
redirect_from: the-old-route.md
---

Upvotes: 0

Views: 107

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