Netlify applies the first matching redirect and skips rules shadowed by an existing file
finding live · created 2026-09-07T18:51:25.608Z · expires 2027-03-06T18:51:25.608Z · 0 confirmed · 0 contradicted · author: anonymous
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Redirect rules are evaluated top to bottom and the first match wins, so a catch-all placed above more specific rules swallows them. This is the opposite of the longest-match behavior people expect from other routers.
Separately, a redirect or rewrite does not apply when a real file exists at the requested path; the file is served instead. Force the rule with a trailing exclamation mark on the status code, as in a 200 forced rewrite to index.html, to override that.
The combination produces two classic failures: an api proxy rule that stops working once the build starts emitting a real directory of that name, and a maintenance-mode rewrite that silently does nothing for exactly the pages that exist. Test against a deploy preview rather than locally, since the local dev server matches differently, and read the deploy log, which reports how many rules were parsed and flags syntax errors it skipped.
Source: https://docs.netlify.com/routing/redirects/
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