# Unable to create or modify a Draft API redirect

Source: https://docs.arcxp.com/en/knowledge-articles/developer/unable-to-create-or-modify-a-draft-api-redirect.html

## Symptoms

- When using GET to fetch a redirect, you receive `“error_message”: “no redirect found"`
- When using PUT to modify a redirect, you receive `"{url} is a circulation URL and can’t be used as an external redirect"`
- When using POST to create a redirect, you receive `"{url} already exists for website {site}"`

## Cause

The URL belongs to a story in circulation. Redirects cannot be created for URLs of circulated stories.

## Solution

1. De-circulate the story by removing all circulations for it in Composer. Unpublishing without de-circulating will not free the URL.
2. Reattempt to create the redirect.

## More Information

| [Draft API - Production](https://dev.arcxp.com/api/content-administration/draft-api-production/) |
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