Redirect a subdomain.domain.com link to an external site

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I have a site operating under eg. domain.com, and another site that is under subdomain.domain.com.

The client has deployed another site at differentdomain.com, and I want to redirect subdomain.domain.com to that link.

Is there any way I can do this through webflow without getting under the hood at differentdomain.com? I also want to shutter the hosted site at subdomain.domain.com and just have it be a redirect.

Thank you!

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Both are Webflow hosted sites?

If so, you would generally-

  • Remove the A and CNAME records for your subdomain.domain.com DNS configuration ( only ). Be careful not to damage your regular domain.com and www.domain.com DNS entries there.
  • Setup a redirection in your DNS provider from subdomain.domain.com to differentdomain.com how and whether you can do this depends on your provider. Cloudflare’s free DNS does this well.
  • Test it, verify it’s working right
  • Shut down your subdmain.domain.com Webflow hosting

Otherwise, its should be technically possible to just use Webflow’s wildcard redirects but you’d be paying for hosting for no reason then.

You’d probably need two records, something like…

  • / → https://www.differentdomain.com
  • /(.*) → https://www.differentdomain.com/%1
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Awesome, thank you. Was hoping there was a way to do it via Webflow but makes sense that I don’t want to be paying for an extra subscription. Kudos!