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So I'm no expert with domain directs, so forgive me if this is a dumb question, but here we go:

What we want to do is direct our site's blog posts from our old site (with old root domain and slug) to our new domain and new slug. For example:

sitea.example/slug1 redirects to siteb.example/different-slug

I can only find a way to redirect our site's root domain on Namecheap. So I've already redirected sitea.example to siteb.example. The problem lies with directing a domain with a slug.

Do I have to create a CNAME record or something for each redirect?

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  • Can you configure your new server to do the slug redirects. For example sitea.example/slug1 would redirect to siteb.example/slug1 which would finally redirect to siteb.example/different-slug?
    – Stephen Ostermiller ♦
    Jan 27 at 16:59
  • Sorry, I don't know what you mean by "configure your new server to do slug redirects". We are registered with namecheap for our old domain, and with google domains for our new domain? And I think we have to set up the redirects from the place that owns our old domain. Are you saying transfer the old domain ownership to google domains? Would that work? Thanks for your answer
    – Kelly Rin
    Jan 27 at 17:09
  • It really doesn't matter where your domain is registered. What matters is how it is hosted. It sounds like you are using very simple redirect hosting for your old domain. How is your new domain hosted?
    – Stephen Ostermiller ♦
    Jan 27 at 18:27
  • So we can only redirect domain names with slugs/extensions from the hosting website such as squarespace, wix, etc (for example)? Our old website is hosted on webflow, and so is our new website (both webflow). They are two different projects on webflow, and are each connected to their respective domain. I know I can redirect domains with slugs from the old website's webflow project, but then we would have to keep paying for that project, right?
    – Kelly Rin
    Jan 27 at 19:56
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    I am suggesting that you use a simple redirect hosting service (like from namecheap) for your old domain that redirects every path to the same exact path on the new domain. And then in your hosting for the new domain (on webflow), configure redirects for all the old URL slugs.
    – Stephen Ostermiller ♦
    Jan 27 at 20:59

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Yes, you can redirect pages from your old site to a new URL in Namecheap's DNS management section.

Select URL Redirect Record from the drop-down menu for Type, put the host to be forwarded to the Host line (@ for your root domain, i.e., domain.com, www for www.domain.com, * for a wildcard record), and enter the destination URL into the Value line:

https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx/385/2237/how-to-redirect-a-url-for-a-domain/

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