The way you’ve described your redirects, I’m guessing you’re upgrading and replacing a previous blog with a new Webflow-based blog site?
If so, yes-
build your new site, create all your content
activate hosting for your new site
change your DNS for your mydomain.fr domain. This will point both mydomain.fr and www.mydomain.fr to your new Webflow site, and handle those redirects accordingly
now if you’d like to preserve linking for your blog entries, create your redirects under Webflow’s hosting. e.g. /old-blog-article-slug/blog/new-blog-article-slug
Notes;
you’ll want to extract all of your old paths out of your old blog before you take it down. You may be able to export those paths directly from your old CMS, or else scrape a sitemap.xml, or else pull them from Google’s search index.
If you have a lot of articles, you don’t have to input these manually…
I usually create these types of redirect maps in e.g. Google Sheets, so they’re easy to adjust and edit. Next to each, you’d figure out the new mapping location you want.
Once you have that list, you can generate a CSV, and import it using Finsweet’s bulk import tool, which I believe is part of Finsweet’s Chrome extension.
If you link your old and new sites, I might be able to recommend the best approach.
Actually, I’m replacing my old website (no www) by a new one with Webflow (with www), and I need to change some of my urls too (blog, contact page…).
FYI - we have to make this first redirection (no www version => www version) due to DNS issues with AWS.
I’m a bit confused here when you say :
“change your DNS for your mydomain.fr domain. This will point both mydomain.fr and www.mydomain.fr to your new Webflow site, and handle those redirects accordingly”
=>do you avoid the redirection with the default domain ?
If I’m reading right, I am understanding that you want…
To replace your old site entirely with your new one
To host your new Webflow website on Webflow’s hosting
To have both www.mydomain.fr and mydomain.fr both point to your new site
If that’s right, it’s easy - it doesn’t matter where your old site was hosted, or where your DNS is running. Webflow’s standard hosting configuration already handles that scenario, for example-