_redirects not working for .rbind.io sub-domain

I used blogdown and Hugo academic to build a new website, and it now resides at https://anishajayadevan.rbind.io. I have updated baseURL to points to this link in config.toml.

I have created a _redirects file which I have placed in static/ here.

However, http:// does not get redirected to https://. And https://anishajayadevan.netlify.app does not get redirected to rbind.io either.

I'd appreciate any help!

For the record I believe this is solved in Github issue that was also opened

Yes, thank you! Closing this issue now.