Redirect netlify site to main domain

[adityarao310]

My DNS is via Netlify and working well at http://kaapi.team/

But my netlify site is also hosted at https://priceless-golick-e43064.netlify.com/ and I want to redirect this to my main business domain http://kaapi.team/

I cant seem to find a setting anywhere for this, or anything in the docs. I have also tried to search this forum but to no avail. I remember seeing this setting before but now I just cant seem to find it and now I feel stupid

Please help - I am sure I am missing something really obvious

[perry]

hi there, maybe i am misunderstanding, but you should be able to connect your custom domain to your netlify site via our UI:

Custom domains

[adityarao310]

Hi Perry!

Yes I have done that - I am connected at https://kaapi.team
But this https://priceless-golick-e43064.netlify.com/ still exists. Now its bad for SEO rankings because two domains with the same content. I need to redirect https://priceless-golick-e43064.netlify.com/ to https://kaapi.team or remove priceless-golick altogether

Is that not possible?

[jen]

Hey @adityarao310!
You can set up that 301 redirect from your Netlify subdomain to your primary custom domain in a _redirects or netlify.toml file. Here’s a post about it:

Recommended status code for redirecting netlify subdomain to primary domain

Hi there, A 200 is a rewrite or a proxy rule (cf Redirects and rewrites | Netlify Docs), which if used in that context does the opposite of what you want - it shows your site (mydomain.com) content at the netlify hostname (https://yoursite.netlify.com), instead of telling the browser “no, this is not the canonical URL, instead go over to https://mydomain.com” which is what a 301 redirect would do. Those docs with the 200 example are buggy and have been live for a year and a half and you’re the…

As for SEO, we recently rolled out an enhancement that should help with two sites that have the same content:

Improved SEO with canonical link headers

Hi all, Next Monday, March 30th, we’re going to make a change to improve SEO in sites that have configured a custom domain. I want to tell you a little bit more about it before we roll it out. Every time you create a new Netlify site, we assign a subdomain for it in our primary domain, netlify.com , for example happy-wozniak-23hdl3.netlify.com . As you might already be aware, on April 14 2020, we’re changing that domain to netlify.app , so that previous example will become happy-wozniak-23hdl3…

This Link header is visible in the response headers when you navigate directly to your Netlify subdomain- not when you go straight to your custom domain:

Hope this helps! Let us know if we can answer any other questions on this

[adityarao310]

Great, that solved it. And I loved the fact that I didnt have to do anything to fix this, and you implemented a feature to make it happen.

Cheers