see I have the following issue and before trying testing all my scenarios I’d love your opinion.
Let’s say we have a domain1.com and domain2.fr - The first domain has a localization plan and has French locale set up. What I need to do now is to create a redirect from the domain2.fr to only respective locale of domain1.com/fr (it works through subdirectory).
Another level of pain is however there was a change of some URLs, therefore I guess 301 need to be done too. And then, there is a case of 301 not working for the root domain - this should be done changing the DNS, right? But what about the rest of the 301 redirects? Will I set it up under the new domain Site settings?
This won’t work well using Webflow redirects alone, because of the pages that have competing URLs such as your homepage.
On both your old site, and your new site, those are at /, but in reality, you want domain2.fr/ to redirect to domain1.com/fr, and Webflow isn’t setup for that.
I’d recommend that you move your DNS for domain2.fr to Cloudflare and then use Cloudflare’s redirects to handle those special requirements. You should be able to do this for free ( no Cloudflare fees ), since you can probably specially redirect the few pages like the homepage, and then blanked-redirect everything else to /fr/* . However;
Cloudflare redirects are very powerful and a bit complex to understand
For redirects to work, you’ll have to setup that domain in a proxy mode. Since your original .fr site is being replaced, that’s trivial.