Relative URLs in redirects

Question:

Do relative paths work with Algolia redirects?

Answer:

Yes. If you are adding custom data for instance, you can add any data as long as it is in a JSON format.  For a redirect, what matters more is how you use this custom data on the front-end.

For example, in the code snippet in this guide, you can see there is a "redirect" attribute in the custom data for the rule which looks like this:

{
  objectID: 'a-rule-id',
  condition: {
    pattern: 'star wars',
    anchoring: 'is'
  },
  consequence: {
    userData: {
      redirect: 'https://www.google.com/#q=star+wars'
    }
  }
};

On the front-end, this snippet is used to see if there are any "redirect' fields on the custom data. If there are, then window.location.href is set to it:

const match = items.find(data => Boolean(data.redirect));
      if (match && match.redirect) {
        window.location.href = match.redirect;
      }

Since you should be able to use window.location.href to set both relative and absolute path, there should be no issue here.