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Summary

This Netlify site is a retired copy of the docs. It still builds the Next.js app, so crawlers render old pages and drive function usage.

• Publish a static site that 301-redirects every path to the same path on https://docs.novu.co, including the query string.
• Skip the Next.js build and set NETLIFY_NEXT_PLUGIN_SKIP=true so Netlify does not publish serverless or edge functions when it auto-detects Next.js.
• Keep /robots.txt crawlable and omit a sitemap, so crawlers can observe the redirects without being handed the old URL list.
• Send X-Robots-Tag: noindex, nofollow on files this host still serves. Netlify does not attach custom headers to the 301 responses; those URLs are retired by the redirect itself.

Test plan

• Local Netlify dev (netlify dev --offline, static framework) returns 301 to https://docs.novu.co/... for /, /platform/inbox?utm=crawler, /sitemap.xml, and POST /api/example
• /robots.txt returns 200 with Allow: /, no sitemap, and X-Robots-Tag: noindex, nofollow
• After deploy, the production Netlify hostname shows the same redirects and the deploy log does not install or invoke the Next.js runtime

  

Confidence Score: 5/5

The PR appears safe to merge with the redirect-header limitation accepted as intentional.

Summary

The PR replaces the retired Netlify docs app with a static redirect site.

• The retired docs host sends old paths to the live docs site.
• Netlify publishes a static redirect site without the Next.js runtime.

Diagram

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flowchart TD
  Request[Request to retired Netlify host] --> Robots{Path is /robots.txt?}
  Robots -->|Yes| File[200: allow crawling, no sitemap]
  Robots -->|No| Redirect[301: same path on docs.novu.co]

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