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#1

Hello all,

I want to forward one of my domain to my webflow.io page. Did a 301 redirect on the serverside, and it directs it to the webflow.io site but the error message is Webflow refused to connect.

my domain is; http://bookserf.com/
desired location is: https://bookserf.webflow.io/

I have other hosted sites on webflow and I know how to do it on hosted plan, but for this website I’d like to keep using free cms features in the beginning.

I just wanted to make sure if this kind of directing possible?
I don’t want to mask domain name, just literally forwarding users to the free weblow site.

Any suggestions would be great,
Thanks

Webflow

#2

@erbils I am having the exact same issue on two sites… set up 301 redirects to Webflow hosted domains (.com to .co.uk) and im getting the same error message!!!

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#4

Something seems wrong with your nginx config (or whatever interface you used to define the redirect)

When I run curl -I http://bookserf.com/ I don’t get a 301 redirect to bookserf.webflow.io. I get a 503 error with a HTML page with a frameset that is trying to encapsulate your free bookserf.webflow.io page.

<html><head><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1"></head>
<frameset border="0" rows="100%,*" cols="100%"
frameborder="no"><frame name="TopFrame"
scrolling="yes" noresize src="https://bookserf.webflow.io"><frame name="BottomFrame" scrolling="no"
noresize><noframes></noframes></frameset></html>

Most likely, Webflow blocks its free webflow.io sites from being embedded like this in a frame. That’s probably why you are seeing “refused to connect”.

But, if you use a real 301 redirect, it works. Bitly uses a 301 and it works with your site: https://bit.ly/399bwnD

@tommyboy82 , your redirects are also not configured properly. curl -I https://www.petrichorproperty.com returns a 403 error.

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#5

Hi @JudoHacker thanks for taking the time to have a look at my issue… my colleague had taken off the 301 direct and tried to use CNAME to point the domain which clearly didn’t work either!! I have just reset up the 301 I previously had! I’m not trying to redirect to a webflow.io free site!

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