I have forwarded an old domain name to a new one with Wix and want to create a file ending domain/TheRegulator.m4v
I am not sure if it’s possible to upload a video file such as this by itself which I was previously able to do using dreamweaver. Wix seems to require that all images are embedded in a page which creates a long and complicated url for the image or in this case video. The reason I need to do this is because I have publicized this address using the previous domain and the forwarding process requires that the url ending be the same.
Any suggestions?
I guess the only way will be uploading your video to your files and the copy the link
after that set up a 301 redirect and forward to the url you copied, however I’m not sure what happens with the .m4v extension, but give it a try
Thanks Carlos.
I have uploaded the file to my media. I have copied the url which is long and complicated.
https://video.wixstatic.com/video/128509_6f560c6ef7544aa1b35252d5b617a1dd/360p/mp4/file.mp4
The url which is already being used is http://www.alexalign.com/TheRegulator.mp4 which automatically gets redirected to https://www.alexaligntherapies.com/TheRegulator.mp4 which is not found. Are you saying I could set something up whereby that is forwarded to the location of the file in question as in
https://video.wixstatic.com/video/128509_6f560c6ef7544aa1b35252d5b617a1dd/360p/mp4/file.mp4
Not sure how to do that. It did occur to me to create a page with the ending of TheRegulator.mp4 but am concerned about scrambling everything up!
I might try it on another site. Will try that now. Ok. It does n’t except anything other than letters. So not sure where to go from here. Meanwhile we have created another page with the video on… which is Ok for new contacts but old ones may still be using the old address.
As I understand it Wix does not facilitate the uploading of individual files. I have previously worked with Dreamweaver and other programmes which enable access to a site folder and so on which does n’t seem to be part of the Wix setup unless I am just not seeing it.
Thank you for helping. Any further ideas as I seem to have met a dead end.
Have discovered the redirect facility in the dashboard and may have fixed it.
Many Thanks
When you upload a file to your Wix site, it is automatically assigned a name by our servers. Currently, it is not possible to customize the name of the file or to show the original name to your visitors when it’s downloaded.
Wix Media Request: Editing the URL of a Media File
You can always look at using the Wix Router to redirect users to a certain page that you want, you can see an example of this working in the Stripe example which you can open up in your own Wix Editor and see all the code setup.
https://www.wix.com/corvid/reference/wix-router.html
https://www.wix.com/corvid/forum/corvid-tips-and-updates/example-stripe-payment-processing
As for changing the url name, you can do that as you have suggested and found out that you can only do something without the fore point in the middle, so you can’t do /filename.mp4
https://support.wix.com/en/article/changing-your-page-url
Although you can try to see if you can use canonical tags and it linked to this new page.
https://support.wix.com/en/article/adding-canonical-tags-to-your-site-7697717
However, if you find that the 301 redirect works fine for you, then just carry on using that.
https://support.wix.com/en/article/setting-up-301-redirects-from-one-url-to-another
Finally, if you want to get around this long filename on a download and have your original filename shown instead, then follow Nayeli (Code Queen) tutorial here on YouTube and her own website.
Corvid Tutorial to download a document and hide WixStatic URL
https://codequeen.wixsite.com/document-download/the-code
Thank you. I’ll look into all of that. I’m new to Wix so there is a lot to learn…