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Redirect a client

To redirect traffic from one domain to another, you need to define an ingress from the old domain that redirects to the new domain, with .spec.redirects[].

The redirects field specifies URL redirects. It is structured as a mapping from a source URL to a target URL.

A successful redirect will return a 302 Moved Temporarily HTTP status code with location header set to the target URL.

Explicit redirect permission

The ingress being redirected has to set the following 

metadata:
    annotations:
        nais.io/allow-redirect: "true"

Status code for redirects

The status code can not be overridden.

Structure

.nais/app.yaml
apiVersion: nais.io/v1alpha1
kind: Application
spec:
  ingress:
    - https://<MY-SUBDOMAIN-NEW>.<ENVIRONMENT-DOMAIN>
  redirects:
    - from: https://<MY-SUBDOMAIN-OLD>.<ENVIRONMENT-DOMAIN>
      to: https://<MY-SUBDOMAIN-NEW>.<ENVIRONMENT-DOMAIN>

Parameters

  • from: (string) The source URL for the redirection. This is the URL that will be redirected.
  • to: (string) The target URL for the redirection. This is the URL that the client will be redirected to.

Usage Example

.nais/app.yaml
apiVersion: nais.io/v1alpha1
kind: Application
spec:
  ingress:
    - http://example-new.nais.io
  redirects:
    - from: "http://example-old.nais.io"
      to: "http://example-new.nais.io"
Redirect restrictions

The from and to URLs must be valid URLs. The to URL must be a valid URL that is exposed by the application.

In this example:

  • Requests to http://example-old.nais.io are redirected to http://example-new.nais.io.