firebase hosting url rewrite pattern matching

Question

How do I rewrite urls like:

http://somedomain.com/page.html

to

http://somedomain.com/DIRECTORY/page.html

in firebase hosting. I tried this in firebase.json but didn't work.

  "rewrites": [ {
      "source": "/**.html",
      "destination": "/DIRECTORY/**.html"
    } ]

How does pattern matching work in firebase hosting config. Help would be appreciated.

Community · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-20 09:12:55Z

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From the Firebase Hosting documentation on rewrites:

The rewrites attribute contains an array of rewrite rules, where each rule must include:

A source specifying a glob pattern

A destination, which is a local file that must exist

So it looks like you can only rewrite to a specific, existing file, not to another wildcard.

You could consider using redirects instead, since those do support dynamic segments in their destination URL.

"redirects": [ {
  "source": "/:page*",
  "destination": "http://somedomain.com/DIRECTORY/:page",
  "type": 301
}]

This sends a redirect instruction back to the client, so they will be able to see what the final path is.

edited Jun 20, 2020 at 9:12

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2 Comments

saibbyweb Over a year ago

I had seen it earlier but couldn't exactly figure out how it would work in my case. I gave it a try and came up with the config posted in my question which isn't working. Can you post the pattern for my problem (in question)?

saibbyweb Over a year ago

Oh! I got it now.

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