I’ve problems to understand how things with custom domains works in Webflow.
My scenario is, I’ve a main website ineproid.com which is on a CMS siteplan.
I want another domain (inepro.fr) pointing to Solutions flexibles et innovantes | inepro ID. and I thought I could do this via the custom domain option in my Site Settings ->Publishing.
First I had to add those DNS records to my domain:
For redirecting inepro.fr to Solutions flexibles et innovantes | inepro ID., you’ll need to set up a domain redirect in your DNS settings. In Webflow, you can manage this through the project’s hosting settings. Make sure your domain is properly connected to Webflow first, then set up the redirect using either:
A DNS redirect at your domain registrar
Webflow’s redirect rules in the hosting settings
DNS changes typically take effect within a few hours, though full propagation can take up to 48 hours. You can monitor the propagation status using whatsmydns.
Hopefully this helps! If you still need assistance, please reply here so somebody from the community can help.
Webflow localization does not support the separation of locales by ccTLD if that’s what you’re trying to do?
If you just want to provide direct access to the French version for marketing materials, you could have https://www.inepro.fr setup externally to redirect to https://www.ineproid.com/fr.
Your domain registrar probably has a domain redirection feature for this purpose or you can move your DNS to Cloudflare and use redirects there.
If you try to add the domain to Webflow directly, you’d have two different domains pointing to the same pages exactly.
Thanks for taking the time to help me out. Really appreciate it. There a reason why I want to resolve it within Webflow. the domain inepro.fr is just a new domain we have registered, so I can “play” a little bit with it.
We also have the domain inepro.de and we have a CMS plan for that within our Webflow workspace (setup by a former employee). The website built on that plan is actually not necessary since it is directly redirected to Flexible & innovative Lösungen | inepro ID.. And also we have a lot of 301 redirects to make sure certain URL paths will remain intact with the right redirect.
So I thought “saving money” by quitting that plan and add it as a custom domain to our main domain ineproid.com. But I guess that is not the best way to go.
When you add domains to a Webflow site, they all behave the same, with the same configuration, redirects, page paths, sitemaps, etc. Generally, you need to make one of those domains the default domain in order for Webflow to work properly, which means all other domains will redirect to that default domain first.
This does not sound like what you want.
If there is any distinction in the redirects, what you want as the homepage, etc. handle that redirection externally. If your registrar / DNS provider does not support that well, move your DNS for free to Cloudflare and take advantage of its redirects.
