How to properly define an external redirect in 'external-sites.json'?

[tools400]

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Does somebody know how to properly define an external redirect in external-sites.json? I cannot make it work.

I have read Configuring external redirects and I created a little test project.

The project publish a html file to GitHub Pages and what I want to achieve is that the user is redirected to https://tools-400.github.io/irpgunit-web-site/update-site/eclipse/rdi8.0/ if he clicks on the link on the README.md of my test project.

He should also be redirected if he entered the URL (https://tools-400.github.io/irpgunit-web-site/update-site/eclipse/rdi8.0/) in a browser.

So what I expect is that the user gets a 301 error if he navigates to https://tools400.github.io/test-redirects/update-site/eclipse/rdi8.0/. The location header should point him to https://tools-400.github.io/irpgunit-web-site/update-site/eclipse/rdi8.0/.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[MeesJ]

This guide applies to creating external redirects on the GitHub Docs site. As far as I know the only way to create redirects on normal GitHub Pages site is by using the meta refresh tag.

[tools400]

Thank you for letting me know. I was not aware of that the external-sites.json file is supposed to work for the GitHub documentation Pages only.