Reverse proxy for webflow

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The CMS hosting doesn’t allow static page hosting. That is I can’t have http://www.foo.com/something serve a json or text file.

Our DNS has a CNAME for www to proxy-ssl dot webflow dot com. So I deleted that and pointed an A record for www to my server’s ip.

I setup a reverse proxy in golang to that same proxy-ssl.webflow.com address and use it for everything except that one static file. But it doesn’t work. Every hit thru the proxy is a 404 this way.

What am I missing?

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You’ll find a number of well-written reverse proxy guides in the forums here if you search. I couldn’t guess what’s happening with your custom setup.

Did you try a 301 redirect for your required file URL?
In many cases I simply host files on Netlify or even Google Drive, and redirect to them.

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Your approach is overly complex.

Simply add some custom JS code to your page and fetch custom JSON or TEXT for display to your screen.