How to redirect to external page

[Andrew-web-coder]

Hi,

I would like to have a page, like /smth/ that redirects to example.com/else/. If I try to use useRouter, then it redirects to just /else. So, how to do that?

[brc-dd]

You need to configure it in your hosting platform.

For Netlify: https://docs.netlify.com/routing/redirects/
For Vercel: https://vercel.com/docs/concepts/projects/project-configuration#redirects

[Andrew-web-coder]

OK, thanks. I am using "Cloudflare Pages" and I will try this - https://developers.cloudflare.com/pages/platform/redirects/

[brc-dd]

Just a remark, you need to keep _redirects in your public directory (docs/public/_redirects if using default settings).

[Andrew-web-coder]

Yes, I followed the docs and used Build command npm run docs:build && cp _redirects docs/.vitepress/dist/_redirects and it works perfectly. Thanks!

[brc-dd]

Yeah, I meant if you keep it in the public directory, VitePress will do the copying for you, so just npm run docs:build will work as the build command (no need of that extra cp thing).

[Andrew-web-coder]

Oh, wow, thanks for the explanation!