Href prefix

You can use the Href prefix setting in your Site settings to use Webflow Hosting in combination with an existing hosting setup. This sets a prefix for all internal page links.

For example, if you have a node.js / Ruby on Rails / Python application, or even an existing WordPress site, but you want to create a blog with Webflow CMS, you can set up a Webflow "sub-site" and use the href prefix to keep your links working.

Important: Webflow doesn't provide support for reverse proxy, but our community is always available to help in the Forum.

How to have Webflow host a part of your website

In this example, let's say you have a blog you want to create in Webflow, but you want it to be served on the same domain as your main site.

1. Create a site in Webflow. We'll call it acme.com for this example, you can call it whatever you'd like.
2. Add a Site plan to this site
3. Install a reverse proxy on top of your web server. You can use nginx, node-proxy, or rails-reverse-proxy, depending on what web server you use.
4. Create a rule that proxies all requests to acme.com/blog and acme.com/blog* to the subdomain connected in Webflow such as "connect.mysite.com".
5. Go to the Acme blog's Site settings > Custom code tab > Advanced settings‍
6. Set the Href prefix to /blog. This will prefix all hrefs in your site to have "/blog," so the links are now relative to the domain.
7. Publish your site

Good to know: This won't affect external links, mail or phone links, or links that get their value from the link, email, or phone fields.