Hi there,
Question:
What DNS settings should be applied or changed after the migration of a website that was using multilingual subdomains to a new website that doesn’t use multilingual?
Product:
The ol website that was using multilingual features (using “en.” and “fr.”) was initially created with Wix Editor.
The new website that does not use multilingual anymore has been created with Wix Studio.
What are you trying to achieve:
After the domain migration (transfer of the Wix Premium plan, including the domain), the old multilingual subdomain URLs are pointing to a Wix error page saying : " Looks like this domain isn’t connected to a website yet".
I’d like the subdomains to be redirected to the main domain.
What have you already tried:
I’ve edited the Wix DNS settings following some instructions found here a there. The initial configuration of the old website was the following :
- For A records, there was 3 entries for my main domain, let’s say “mycoolwebsite.com” (without any subdomain prefix), with three different IP addresses in the range “185.230.x.x”.
- For CNAME, there was one entry for “fr.mycoolwebsite.com”, one for “en.mycoolwebsite.com” and one for “www.mycoolwebsite.com”, all with the same value of “cdn1.wixdns.net”.
I have removed the multilingual related entries from the CNAME records and add them as aliases in the A records section to point to the same set of IP addresses than the “mycoolwebsite.com”.
After more than 48 hours, the result is that nothing has changed and the subdomains still point to the Wix error page.
After that, I checked all those DNS records on whatsmydns.net (recommended by Wix). I discovered that my website was in fact not responding to addresses in “185.230.x.x”, but to “34.149.87.45” which seems to be the address of a new Wix infrastructure (Google?). I then changed the A records to use this address instead of the former “185.230.x.x” addresses. Unfortunately that doesn’t help either…
Additional information:
The main website still works perfectly, so it seems that at least, the changes I’ve tried in the DNS settings didn’t break anything.
Also note that before the migration, I didn’t remove the multilingual features from the old website. Perhaps that would have helped, but that was not an obvious move to do, especially to avoid SEO issues afterwards. The think is that now it is too late anyway, and concerning the impact on SEO, I cannot really tell…
Any help on this will be greatly welcome!
Cheers