I tried to redirect to homepage by adding this meta tag inside 404.html file :
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<meta2
http-equiv="refresh"3
content="0; URL='https://gittestfor.github.io'"4
/>5
And it works fine the first time but the second the page gets cached it doesn’t work .
When I clear site data in the application tab in developer console , it works .
How can I disable this behaviour or redirect from any path to homepage “/” with github pages ?
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Answer
I solved the issue by adding a 404.html file to the root of the project in github pages repo and added this code to that file :
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<!DOCTYPE html>2
<html lang="en">3
<head>4
<meta charset="UTF-8" />5
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" />6
<meta7
http-equiv="refresh"8
content="0; URL='https://username.github.io'"9
/>10
</head>11
<body></body>12
</html>13
Now every request other than https://username.github.io/ like .../name will be redirected to the homepage which is / .
Note : This behaviour works only when the page is not cached in the browser and there is no service worker to cache the website .