vercel rewrites to static folder

[skene]

Hello,

Im trying to use vercel.json rewrites to direct urls to a specific file in my next js static folder with no luck.

the vercel.json file

{
  "version": 2,
  "rewrites": [
    {
      "source": "/static/file.txt",
      "destination": "/src/public/folder/file.txt
    }
  ]
}

the repo structure

src
    components
    pages
    public
        folder
            file.txt
vercel.json
next.config.js
package.json

Do i need to be using the dist folder as the destination? If so, i am not seeing the file.txt being outputted to the dist static folder?

Thanks in advanced

[ijjk]

Hi, the public folder should not be nested under the src folder since it still needs to be at the top-level to be detected correctly.

After moving the public folder to the top of your project you can also leverage the new experimental rewrites support in your next.config.js and they will automatically be applied when deploying on Vercel e.g.

// next.config.js
module.exports = {
  experimental: {
    async rewrites() {
      return [
        {
          source: '/static/file.txt',
          destination: '/folder/file.txt'
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}