Redirects and rewrites

Redirects… in the site menu lists the site's rules, in the order they're tried: the first rule whose From matches a path is used. Each rule's From is a path that starts with "/": words, ":name" for one part of the path, or "*" at the end for the rest. To can use the same names.

Redirect an old address

Choose Add redirect, enter the old path in From and the new path or full address in To, and pick a Status: 301 or 308 for a page that moved for good (search engines move it too), 302 or 307 for one that moved for now. Keep the query (?…) passes on what follows "?" in the address. Test a path shows which rule a path meets, and where it goes.

When a published page gets a new address, Xeek Sites sends its old one on by itself: those rules are listed under Automatic redirects, where you can remove one.

Show another site's page with a rewrite

A rule with the status Rewrite · Show another site's page here shows the page at its To address at your path, with your address staying in the visitor's address bar. It's how you move a site to Xeek Sites page by page, behind one domain. To must be a full https:// address of a page on another site, without a port or password.

On your own domain the visitor sees that page at your address. On a free *.xeek.site address, a rewrite sends visitors to the other site instead. A site has at most 20 rewrites, counted with its redirects.

Publish to apply your changes. A rule that sends a visitor back to a path it matches itself stops the publish.