Astro developer loses 64 silent redirects during self-hosted Caddy migration from Vercel
Tactics · dev.to · stat: 64 rules Developer Ricco020 warns that migrating static Astro sites off Vercel to a containerized Caddy host silently breaks edge-configured routing. While the build…
Tactics · dev.to · stat: 64 rules
Developer Ricco020 warns that migrating static Astro sites off Vercel to a containerized Caddy host silently breaks edge-configured routing. While the build succeeds, inherited headers, language negotiation, and clean URL rules fail without warning. Resolving the migration requires manually translating the configurations into a custom Caddyfile to preserve 64 legacy redirects.
Platform convenience masks silent routing configurations that break during self-hosting migrations. Founders migrating off PaaS providers must audit edge-level routing rules to prevent catastrophic SEO drops from broken redirect chains.
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