Path rewriting does not work for the home page

[ponjs]

Description

I'm rewriting /about as / but when I visit the / page, the url address bar is /about

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Mandatory reproduction URL

https://stackblitz.com/edit/stackblitz-starters-nwjigc?file=src%2Fmiddleware.ts

Reproduction description

Visit stackblitz's open prview in new tab and visit / page

Expected behaviour

When the / page is accessed, the page is a /about page, but the url is still the / page.

[amannn]

For the record, navigating to a locale root works as expected:

So as far as I understand the issue, this is about the location that's picked when there's a locale-specific redirect at the root:

As a workaround, you can consider adding your own redirect at the root in the middleware, but I think it would be helpful to investigate wether there's something to address here in next-intl.

[amannn]

I've refactored the middleware handling somewhat in #1086 and have added a test for your use case. Should work in the future after the PR is merged!