Can i create a microsite under a same domain name on webflow?
In a native Webflow-hosting setup, all domains that you add to a site will reflect the entire site. All of the same pages, the same sitemap.xml, etc.
In a few cases such as special marketing landing pages, I setup a reverse proxy for clients where a different domain name can display just a single page or the contents of a single folder, complete with sitemap, link adjustments, canonical fixes…
None of this is natively supported however.
I already have a CMS site for my client. And now my client would like to build another microsite under the same domain. For example the main domain is www.abc.com. Now the microsite will be www.abc.com/tech. And under this microsite there’ll be different pages.
In that case, do I need to sign up for another CMS plan to build this microsite?
If your “micro-site” is represented as a path on the main site, e.g. you access the main site at www.abc.com and the microsite at www.abc.com/tech then you’re fine. It’s just one site. You’re just distributing a path to a subsection of that site. Those pages can have special content and styling.
The only thing to figure out here is SEO. Normally those pages will be in the sitemap with your main site. If you don’t need any SEO, you can exclude them from the sitemap, but they won’t be in any sitemap.
If your “micro-site” uses the CMS, that’s a bit more complexity, both on the sitemap and on isolating the folder arrangement.
If you need a separate domain for the micro-site, or a separate sitemap, you either need a second site & hosting plan or a reverse proxy.
For very small microsites with no CMS, which almost never update, you could just export them and host on Netlify as well.
Thank you so much Michael!