diff --git a/middleware.test.ts b/middleware.test.ts
index 8e96b9d2a5163..6e8f6e7763517 100644
--- a/middleware.test.ts
+++ b/middleware.test.ts
@@ -100,6 +100,92 @@ describe('middleware redirect set selection', () => {
   });
 });
 
+describe('production build-url redirect to canonical (Deployment Protection off)', () => {
+  afterEach(() => {
+    vi.unstubAllEnvs();
+  });
+
+  function makeHostRequest(url: string, method = 'GET'): NextRequest {
+    return new NextRequest(new URL(url), {method});
+  }
+
+  it('redirects a non-canonical production host to the canonical host', async () => {
+    const {middleware} = await importMiddleware({});
+    vi.stubEnv('VERCEL_ENV', 'production');
+    const res = middleware(
+      makeHostRequest('https://sentry-docs-abc123.vercel.app/platforms/javascript/')
+    );
+    expect(res.status).toBe(308);
+    expect(res.headers.get('location')).toBe(
+      'https://docs.sentry.io/platforms/javascript/'
+    );
+  });
+
+  it('preserves query strings when redirecting', async () => {
+    const {middleware} = await importMiddleware({});
+    vi.stubEnv('VERCEL_ENV', 'production');
+    const res = middleware(
+      makeHostRequest('https://sentry-docs-git-master-getsentry.vercel.app/search/?q=x')
+    );
+    expect(res.status).toBe(308);
+    expect(res.headers.get('location')).toBe('https://docs.sentry.io/search/?q=x');
+  });
+
+  it('redirects to develop.sentry.dev in developer docs mode', async () => {
+    const {middleware} = await importMiddleware({NEXT_PUBLIC_DEVELOPER_DOCS: '1'});
+    vi.stubEnv('VERCEL_ENV', 'production');
+    const res = middleware(
+      makeHostRequest('https://develop-docs-abc123.vercel.app/getting-started/')
+    );
+    expect(res.status).toBe(308);
+    expect(res.headers.get('location')).toBe(
+      'https://develop.sentry.dev/getting-started/'
+    );
+  });
+
+  it('does not redirect requests already on the canonical host', async () => {
+    const {middleware} = await importMiddleware({});
+    vi.stubEnv('VERCEL_ENV', 'production');
+    const res = middleware(makeHostRequest('https://docs.sentry.io/platforms/'));
+    expect(res.status).not.toBe(308);
+  });
+
+  it('leaves preview deployments accessible (no redirect)', async () => {
+    const {middleware} = await importMiddleware({});
+    vi.stubEnv('VERCEL_ENV', 'preview');
+    const res = middleware(
+      makeHostRequest('https://sentry-docs-git-my-branch.sentry.dev/getting-started/')
+    );
+    expect(res.status).not.toBe(308);
+  });
+
+  it('does nothing locally (VERCEL_ENV unset)', async () => {
+    const {middleware} = await importMiddleware({});
+    vi.stubEnv('VERCEL_ENV', '');
+    const res = middleware(makeHostRequest('https://sentry-docs-abc123.vercel.app/foo/'));
+    expect(res.status).not.toBe(308);
+  });
+
+  it('redirects HEAD requests', async () => {
+    const {middleware} = await importMiddleware({});
+    vi.stubEnv('VERCEL_ENV', 'production');
+    const res = middleware(
+      makeHostRequest('https://sentry-docs-abc123.vercel.app/foo/', 'HEAD')
+    );
+    expect(res.status).toBe(308);
+    expect(res.headers.get('location')).toBe('https://docs.sentry.io/foo/');
+  });
+
+  it('does not redirect non-page requests', async () => {
+    const {middleware} = await importMiddleware({});
+    vi.stubEnv('VERCEL_ENV', 'production');
+    const res = middleware(
+      makeHostRequest('https://sentry-docs-abc123.vercel.app/foo/', 'POST')
+    );
+    expect(res.status).not.toBe(308);
+  });
+});
+
 describe('canonical Link header on .md responses', () => {
   afterEach(() => {
     vi.unstubAllEnvs();
@@ -145,9 +231,12 @@ describe('canonical Link header on .md responses', () => {
 describe('wantsMarkdownViaAccept: text/plain no longer triggers markdown', () => {
   it('does not serve markdown for Accept: application/json, text/plain, */*', async () => {
     const {middleware} = await importMiddleware({});
-    const req = new NextRequest(new URL('/platforms/apple/cocoa/', 'http://localhost:3000'), {
-      headers: {'Accept': 'application/json, text/plain, */*'},
-    });
+    const req = new NextRequest(
+      new URL('/platforms/apple/cocoa/', 'http://localhost:3000'),
+      {
+        headers: {Accept: 'application/json, text/plain, */*'},
+      }
+    );
     const res = middleware(req);
     // Should not rewrite to .md — Next rewrite changes the URL; a plain next() keeps it
     expect(res.headers.get('x-middleware-rewrite')).toBeNull();
@@ -155,9 +244,12 @@ describe('wantsMarkdownViaAccept: text/plain no longer triggers markdown', () =>
 
   it('still serves markdown for explicit text/markdown Accept header', async () => {
     const {middleware} = await importMiddleware({});
-    const req = new NextRequest(new URL('/platforms/apple/cocoa/', 'http://localhost:3000'), {
-      headers: {'Accept': 'text/markdown'},
-    });
+    const req = new NextRequest(
+      new URL('/platforms/apple/cocoa/', 'http://localhost:3000'),
+      {
+        headers: {Accept: 'text/markdown'},
+      }
+    );
     const res = middleware(req);
     // A rewrite to .md will set x-middleware-rewrite
     expect(res.headers.get('x-middleware-rewrite')).toContain('.md');
diff --git a/middleware.ts b/middleware.ts
index 5fcf32699f2c0..222e1a94ef5ac 100644
--- a/middleware.ts
+++ b/middleware.ts
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ const BASE_URL = isDeveloperDocs
   ? 'https://develop.sentry.dev'
   : 'https://docs.sentry.io';
 
+const CANONICAL_HOST = new URL(BASE_URL).hostname;
+
 // Production domains whose content should be indexable by search engines.
 // All other hostnames (Vercel preview/deployment URLs, old production deployments)
 // get X-Robots-Tag: noindex to prevent search engines from indexing stale content.
@@ -35,6 +37,11 @@ export const config = {
 
 // This function can be marked `async` if using `await` inside
 export function middleware(request: NextRequest) {
+  const buildUrlRedirect = redirectProductionBuildUrlToCanonical(request);
+  if (buildUrlRedirect) {
+    return buildUrlRedirect;
+  }
+
   // Classify once per request and record it as a counter. This metric — not
   // trace sampling — is the source of truth for agent/bot/user traffic: the
   // middleware root span is created by Next.js before any request data reaches
@@ -55,6 +62,26 @@ export function middleware(request: NextRequest) {
   return response;
 }
 
+/** Redirects page requests on noncanonical production hosts, leaving previews public. */
+function redirectProductionBuildUrlToCanonical(
+  request: NextRequest
+): NextResponse | null {
+  if (
+    process.env.VERCEL_ENV !== 'production' ||
+    (request.method !== 'GET' && request.method !== 'HEAD')
+  ) {
+    return null;
+  }
+  if (request.nextUrl.hostname === CANONICAL_HOST) {
+    return null;
+  }
+  const url = request.nextUrl.clone();
+  url.protocol = 'https:';
+  url.host = CANONICAL_HOST;
+  url.port = '';
+  return NextResponse.redirect(url, 308);
+}
+
 /**
  * Adds X-Robots-Tag: noindex to responses served from non-production domains.
  * This prevents search engines from indexing stale Vercel deployment URLs
diff --git a/next.config.ts b/next.config.ts
index 4662d206569fe..71bc6673facde 100644
--- a/next.config.ts
+++ b/next.config.ts
@@ -141,6 +141,8 @@ const nextConfig = {
     // Inline NEXT_PUBLIC_DEVELOPER_DOCS into edge middleware at build time.
     // Edge runtime doesn't have access to server env vars at request time.
     DEVELOPER_DOCS: process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_DEVELOPER_DOCS,
+    // Freeze this per-deployment value for middleware, matching the pattern above.
+    VERCEL_ENV: process.env.VERCEL_ENV,
   },
   redirects,
   rewrites: () => [