Routing getting in the way

[jamiematrix]

Am I right in thinking if I have some custom routes in routes.php then that functionality takes over any redirects set?

If that's true, is there a way round? Or is it possible to use the specified template in routes.php to lookup the redirects and redirect accordingly?

[idawgik]

I'm running into a similar issue. I have some routes defined in the admin, as well as some 301 redirects for urls matching those routes that no longer exist. However, the redirects don't work for those urls, and I'm always sent to the routed url.

It seems like Craft is matching to the configured route as higher priority than the redirects.

Is there a work around for this?