.. _redirects:

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Redirects
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Background
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HTTP is the technical method that your browser uses to talk to servers and get web pages.

One of the features of HTTP is the concept of "redirects": the server telling your browser "actually, the page you want is over there".


Redirects in SAU
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Swiss Army Upload supports reading a ``_redirects`` file (similar to `Codeberg <https://docs.codeberg.org/codeberg-pages/redirects/>`_ and `Netlify <https://docs.netlify.com/manage/routing/redirects/overview/#syntax-for-the-_redirects-file>`_) and applying them to your site.

However, different services have different capabilities. For example, :ref:`backend-teahouse` does not support wildcards. See :ref:`backends` for specifics.

This is an option on both :ref:`cmd-get` and :ref:`cmd-sync`.