redirects not working

[agjs]

We are hosting our company website using Jekyll on S3, using cloudfront as our CDN.

Due to the nature of Jekyll and the structure it creates e.g. /about/index.html, I'm trying to create meta redirects so for example when you come to /about/ ---> /about, which means that instead of serving index.html from the about folder, we are serving about object from the root of S3.

Example:

redirects:
  is/index.html: /is
  education/index.html: /education

For instance, when users comes to /education/, I want them be redirected to education object in the root of the directory and for some reason, s3_website gem is not adding meta-data to the index.html files at all.

What I expect to happen is:

about/index.html ---> this guy gets the redirect meta data to about

When I inspect the file in s3 file explorer, meta data is not there.

Am I doing something wrong or is this a known bug ?

Thanks in advance,
Alex

[laurilehmijoki]

Hi Alex, do you have the file is/index.html on your website? If yes, that probably conflicts with the redirect rule. Consequently, the redirect metadata is not applied to the object. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

[agjs]

Yes sir, the folder is indeed there. Should I remove those folders and let the gem create those files automatically ? I believe I also tried with the files which do not have the folder. Do I need to wait till the website is fully re-cached for this to take place ?