Does redirects.json work with Ghost REST API?

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I’m looking into setting up redirects using the redirects.json feature:
https://docs.ghost.org/v1/docs/redirects

Tested around but could not get it working. Should I expect the API request URL to redirect? Or does this feature only work when using a Ghost template vs. the REST API?

Here’s my redirects.json:

[
    {
        "from": "the-future-of-public-finance-is-coming",
        "to": "lets-restart-the-hidden-economic-engine",
        "permanent": true
    }
]

Requesting this URL in a browser:
https://neighborly.com/learn/the-future-of-public-finance-is-coming

Still yields the following API request, which 404s:
https://neighborly.com/learn/ghost/api/v0.1/posts/slug/the-future-of-public-finance-is-coming/?...client_secret_info

Ideal scenario would be to redirect the browser to the new page:

Less ideal but workable scenario would be that the API request redirects the slug:
https://neighborly.com/learn/ghost/api/v0.1/posts/slug/lets-restart-the-hidden-economic-engine/?...client_secret_info

Thanks!

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Ghost’s redirects.json does not affect the API at all, it only deals with URLs (not slugs) and will redirect a request coming in to the front-end not the API.

Eg. redirects.json:

[
    {
       "from": "/old-post/",
       "to": "/new-post/",
       "permanent": true
    }
]

myblog.com/old-post/ → (301) → myblog.com/new-post/

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3

The docs cover typical use-cases:

https://docs.ghost.org/docs/redirects

4

Ah, bummer. Thanks @Kevin. Given that redirects.json does not affect the API at all, I’ll solve this with NGINX.

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