Hello,
I used to work on dataprep.be
The project is dead but LOVED the ability to redirect the domain dataprep.be to dataprep.webflow.io
I just redirected both dataprep.be and www.dataprep.be to https://dataprep.webflow.io
This was useful for my resume and used to work.
Is this feature now blocked by webflow?
Here is my site Read-Only: LINK
(how to share your site Read-Only link)
Hey Bernard,
Are you doing the redirect at your DNS provider? I’m assuming so, and that should work fine.
Yes, I’ve been doing it for several months. And it wasn’t working anymore.
Just wanted to check if this was a change from webflow or a bug on my (DNS) side.
It works again. Don’t know why :)
Thanks for the help anyway!
The way redirects work is that they tell the browser where to go, so redirecting to your webflow.io site is no different from just typing it into the URL bar. Webflow wouldn’t know or care.
There is however a second technique that some DNS providers use which involves IFRAMEing a site, like;
<body> - your new domain
<iframe> - some other webpage
Sometimes they call it “masking.” It’s not related to redirects and yes, Webflow can and does block the IFRAMEing of its free webflow.io sites with the appropriate HTTP response headers.