Redirects

Redirects send visitors who open a path on your website to another address. Use them when a page moves, or on a server with Nginx only, where .htaccess rewrite rules are ignored. Redirects work for every website type.

Open the website and go to Hosting › Redirects.

Add a redirect

1. Click Add redirect.
2. Choose the Status:
   • 301 · Permanent when the page has moved for good. Browsers and search engines remember it.
   • 302 · Temporary when the page will come back.
3. Under Source, type the path after your domain, for example old-page. Leave it empty to redirect the home page.
4. Under Destination URL, choose https:// or http:// and type the address, for example example.com/new-page.
5. Click Add redirect.

How redirects match

• A redirect matches its path exactly, with or without a trailing /. old-page covers /old-page and /old-page/, but not /old-page/photo.jpg.
• Paths can use letters, numbers, ., _, ~, - and /.
• Rules apply to every domain of the website. To send another domain of the website to the main one, tick Redirect to the primary domain when you add that domain under Domains & SSL instead.
• Each path can have only one redirect. A website can have up to 500.

The panel refuses a redirect that would send visitors back to the same address forever.

Edit or delete a redirect

The list shows each redirect’s source, destination and status.

• Click Edit, change the fields and click Save redirect.
• Click Delete and confirm Delete redirect.

Tip

To send every visit from HTTP to HTTPS, you don’t need a redirect: use Force HTTPS. See SSL certificates.