Hi everyone,
My client asked me to connect a new domain to the website. I’ve changed the DNS settings of the domain provider and Webflow shows it is connected, but I can’t publish it. Does anyone know why this is? Did I make a mistake in the DNS settings?
Here is my site Read-Only: Webflow - Fitwin
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What’s the domain name you’re trying to connect?
fitwin.be and www.fitwin.be
The DNS settings appear correct.
What’s the screenshot of your Webflow hosting settings?
You should see both domains. One of the www subdomains, whichever is primarily, should be set as the default domain.
Then you publish.
It should be pretty straightfoward- maybe share screenshots of where you’re running into problems?
Hi @memetican, thanks for helping me out. I let the domainname provider set it up, it still shows the same. It is connected but can’t publish, maybe I have to wait for a bit?
Both fitwin.nl and fitwin.be are working fine for me-
fitwin.be redirects to the default domain as it should.
Yes, I made the .be the default and then published it, that did the trick. But is it possible to publish it on it’s own .be domain, so no redirects? Or is that not how it works?
That generally does not work well.
You can try unsetting the default domain and republish.
It might not work at all, e.g. too many redirects, or www.www errors. Or it might partially work where www. subdomains work independently the way you’re describing, but the base domains fail.
Even if it mostly works, the sitemap will be incorrect, it will pick one of the two sites randomly and generate that way, which makes the other SEO-incompatible.
