Using a redirect link in rel=canonical link tag bad for SEO?

Question

I have in my Django site's template:

<link rel="canonical" href="https://www.my-domain.example/post/1"/>

But the actual link is https://www.my-actual-domain.example/post/1

my-domain.example gets redirected (301) to my-actual-domain.example

Is it better (from a SEO POV) to have the canonical_tag as my-actual-domain.example than having my-domain.example even though the latter redirects?

Answer 1

The canonical should point to the URL with a status code 200.

Pointing the canonical to a redirect beats the purpose and makes it more likely that Google ignores it.