How to connect your Webflow site to Engyne blog

Connecting your Webflow site to your Engyne blog involves the below two steps:

1. Add a custom subdomain to your Webflow site

2. Connect the subdomain to Engyne

Let's get started!

Step 1: Add a Subdomain to your Webflow site

Make sure you're on the plan that allows you to have a custom domain. Typically it's the Basic plan and up.

Open up your Webflow site > Settings > Publishing and add a custom domain. Enter the domain as: webflow.<yourdomain.com>. For example, for me, it would be webflow.engyne.ai.

Webflow will show a list of new DNS records you will need to add to your DNS manager.

Make sure to:

• Add all new records Webflow shows in your DNS

• Click the Make Default setting for this new domain

• Click on Verify Installation to confirm that the DNS records were added successfully

• Publish the website to the new domain

Try accessing your Webflow site at webflow.<yourdomain.com> and confirm that you can see all the landing pages. If so, move to Step 2 otherwise go through the above checklist again.

Step 2: Deploy Engyne blog as /blog

In your DNS settings, add these new records:

• Type: A

• Name: @

• Value: 76.76.21.21

and

• Type: CNAME

• Name: www

• Value: cname.vercel-dns.com

Now sign into Engyne dashboard and go to Settings > Deployment.

Enter your root domain as the Custom Domain. This would be something like <yoursite.com>. Click Connect. It should connect right away, but sometimes it can take ~10 mins for the DNS changes to propagate over.

When it's connected, toggle the Enable subfolder option. Choose Custom as your frontend service and enter the webflow subdomain as your Custom-Hosted URL that we deployed to in the last step. It will look like webflow.<yoursite.com>.

Click Save and voila!

All your Webflow pages will be on the root domain and /blog will be the Engyne blog pages.

Step 3: Set up Robots.txt

Now if you've done SEO before, you'll see a little of a problem with this setup where webflow.<yoursite.com> and <yoursite.com> will have the same content and Google won't know which one to index. This is why we will turn off indexing on webflow.<yoursite.com> and keep it on for <yoursite.com> . The latter already is handled by Engyne.

To turn off indexing for the former:

1. Go to Webflow > SEO

2. In the robots.txt section, paste this exactly:

That's it!

Now if you open up webflow.<yoursite.com>/robots.txt , the rules will tell Google not to index anything here. If you open up <yoursite.com>/robots.txt , the rules will tell Google to index everything.