Hi everyone, my client has a Wordpress site/domain that I’ve redesigned in Webflow. They bought the domain through Bluehost/Wordpress but I can’t seem to find the DNS setting in Wordpress to redirect to Webflow. Has anyone solved this issue before?
Bumping this as I have the same issue. Did you find a solution?
External redirects to new domain are normally handled at the web server level. On apache that would be using .htaccess RewriteRule rules.
Can you explain what this means? What is apache and what is .htaccess RewriteRule rules?
Apache is a web server. Bluehost is a hosting provider that uses it to serve web pages for clients.
Apache supports (as do all web servers I know) redirects. Redirects are what is used to force a vistor hitting a resource to be redirected to an alternate resource.
https://projects.apache.org/project.html?httpd-http_server
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@webdev I don’t think we are on the same page. They aren’t using apache or bluehost. They are hosting and registered through Wordpress. I’m just trying to switch the DNS settings
Changing the DNS records to point to Webflow will make that domain’s www and root record resolve to Webflow servers. There is documentation available in the University → to set up a custom domain.
It doesn’t look like the CNAME and A records are customizable for Wordpress registrated domains. So it looks like my only option is to transfer registration elsewhere. Thanks anyway!
Yes. If you are completely moving off wordpress.com and the domain was registered through them then I suggest you transfer the domain to a new registrar that also includes DNS (managed or unmanaged) hosting. Once the transfer is complete you could then follow the instructions provided by Webflow to implement a custom domain for your new project.
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