Redirections
Introduction
As a merchant, you might be creating a website, and then sharing links of your products, collections, deals, marketing pages, and more with your target customers. If you have spent money on advertisements that link directly to a URL on your website, you may never want to lose or change the URL.
However, Fynd Platform allows you to redirect visitors from an old URL to a new URL. It allows you to redirect domains as well as redirect paths. Moreover, this redirection feature works for both predefined domains and custom domains.
Scenarios of redirection
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Domain Redirection
- Redirect a custom domain to another custom domain on Fynd Platform
Example: mytestshop.com → newshop.com - Redirect a predefined domain to a custom domain on Fynd Platform
Example: sale.fynd.io → newshop.com - Redirect a custom domain to a predefined domain on Fynd Platform
Example: mytestshop.com → sale.fynd.io - Redirect a predefined domain to another predefined domain on the same saleschannel of Fynd Platform
Example: deal.fynd.io → sale.fynd.io
- Redirect a custom domain to another custom domain on Fynd Platform
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Path Redirection
- Redirect a path from a previous custom domain to a path on the same custom domain on Fynd Platform
Example: /data/products/ → /products (on mytestshop.com) - Redirect a path from a predefined domain to a path on the same predefined domain on Fynd Platform
Example: /data/products/ → /products (on sale.fynd.io)
- Redirect a path from a previous custom domain to a path on the same custom domain on Fynd Platform
By using both path and domain redirection in conjunction, you can redirect an old custom/prefined domain having old path, to a new custom/predefined domain having new path. Example: mytestshop.com/data/products/ → sale.fynd.io/products/
You can readily use predefined domains such as fynd.io and fyndstore.co for redirections, as you don't have the option to change the A records or TXT records. For any operation with custom domains, you have to link the domain to your Fynd Platform account by configuring A records and TXT record in your domain provider account.