Redirects

With Orbiter you can setup redirects to help navigate your users to new paths or completely external ones. We follow the same patterns as other static site hosting platforms for redirects so you can easily move your redirects to Orbiter or vice versa.

To add redirects, create a file called _redirects with no file extension. You will want this to be in your root build folder, ie something like your public folder so it can be accessed at https://mysite.com/_redirects. The contents of the file should look like this:

/old-path   /new-path
/some-post  /post/some-post
/orbiter    https://orbiter.host

This pattern follows a simple source -> destination pattern, where the source is the old page and the destination is where you want to redirect your user to. One more optional parameter in the layout is a custom status code following destination.

/old-path   /new-path               301
/some-post  /post/some-post         307
/orbiter    https://orbiter.host

By default Orbiter will use a 301 status code if not specified in the redirects file.

Once you have this file saved simply deploy your app to Orbiter.

orbiter deploy

That's it! We handle the rest 😎

Custom 404 Page

At the moment if someone tries to visit a path on your app that does not exist they'll simply be directed to the root path /. If you would prefer to redirect them to a custom 404 page you can designate it in the _redirects file using the 404 as the source, and the path to your custom 404 page as the destination.

/old-path   /new-path
/some-post  /post/some-post
/orbiter    https://orbiter.host
404         /404

With this setup anyone who visits a non existant page they will be sent to the destination path.