Hi All,
I’m wondering if we can point only one of out page in a project to the another subdomain.
For example I have project hosted on example.com. For only 1 page instead of example.com/anotherpage i want to use anotherpage.example.com
Is it possible to do that without doing in a new project?
Here is my site Read-Only: LINK
(how to share your site Read-Only link)
Hi Beril, so what you’d want to do is
something similar to your issue here
Thank you for reply,
Unfortunately my website has more than 30 pages already. Save as a draft one by one with this method will be really hard. Because i guess for every update for both env. i need to do same process over again.
I guess there is no other way to do that.
Thank you
Hmmm from looking around this seems to be the only way would’ve been nice if you could make a folder as a draft containing all the pages hope Webflow implement this feature!
@austin do you have any ideas if this could be done quicker?
Hi Beril, what you’re describing here is a second website. However it’s possible to hack this type of behavior onto a single Webflow-hosted site in a couple of ways.
IMPORTANT: See Facundo’s notes below. Browsers restrict location history updates such that the domain name cannot be visibly changed, which means that approach #1 and #2 won’t fully achieve the desired result. I’ll leave them here as documentation, but Reverse Proxy or self-hosting are the only ways to achieve this completely.
SECOND DOMAIN, AND SCRIPTED REDIRECTS
https://anotherpage.example.com/... or https://example.com/anotherpage.example.com hostname, you’ll redirect them to /anotherpage./anotherpage, which resets the URL history so that the URL being displayed is https://anotherpage.example.com. EXTERNAL REDIRECT
Similar to above, but in some DNS providers like Cloudflare you can set subdomain redirection rules. In Cloudflare you’d setup a CNAME and a Rule for the redirect, and you’d still need step 3 above.
REVERSE PROXY
This is the most complex however it’s the only way to get full control over the URLs on a Webflow-hosted site. There are some guides in the forums.
SELF-HOSTED SITE
If you do not need Webflow’s CMS, ECommerce, Memberships, Logic, form submission handler, etc, you can self-host your site. When exported to your own environment, you will have full control over the server configuration, since you set that up yourself.
Hi Michael.
I need to do the same as the OP for a client and after reading many posts in the forum, that is a really good summary of the solutions we have available nowadays. I appreciate the clarity.
A few more questions:
About the easiest solution (1st step): nowadays I have the www.example.com as default and example.com as not default. If I remove the 2nd (example.com) and add the anotherpage.example.com in it’s place, what would happen when someone tries to enter example.com?
About the easiest solution (3rd step): you mean a script to change the visible url to anotherpage.example.com? I thought you only could do that but only to the pathname part (with window.history.replaceState). Am I wrong?
Side note: the client is using GoDaddy as domain service, and I see that it exists a “Subdomain forwarding (to a specific URL)”. Do you know if that would work as a direct solution?
Thanks in advance!
If you want to support example.com by itself, you’ll want to use a DNS that supports CNAME flattening and configure Webflow appropriately. Webflow’s docs cover that pretty well.
Ah! Good catch, yes that’s correct, and that renders option 1 moot. 