Redirect to itself

A page’s redirect_to names the page’s own address, or an address whose redirects, followed, come back to the page. A page with redirect_to publishes a redirect at its address and nothing else, so a reader arriving there would be sent back to the same redirect, again and again.

Statac follows a redirect_to naming another redirect on the site, an old address in a page’s redirect_from or a page with its own redirect_to, to where readers would end up. Where that comes back to the page, every page in the ring is told, each at its own redirect_to.

What you’ll see

error  Redirect to itself: `/post-1/` is this page's own address
  Point `redirect_to` at the address readers should reach.
  More: https://statac.dev/e/redirect-to-itself/

In the terminal the message also names the file and line where there is one, and marks the exact text.

Why Statac stops

Statac can’t tell where readers were meant to go, and publishing the redirect would leave its address unusable.

How to fix it

Point redirect_to at the address the writing is at now. If the page should be published here after all, take redirect_to out. In a ring, send readers from one page at least to somewhere that isn’t a redirect.

Example

In content/post-1.md, published at /post-1/:

---
redirect_to: /post-1/
---

Send readers to where the writing is now:

---
redirect_to: /posts/post-1/
---

Two pages sending readers to each other, content/post-1.md:

---
redirect_to: /post-2/
---

and content/post-2.md:

---
redirect_to: /post-1/
---

Send one of them to where the writing is now:

---
redirect_to: /posts/post-1/
---

Its name

Name	redirect-to-itself
In the terminal	statac explain redirect-to-itself
To stop showing it	It stops the build, so it can't be quietened.