Connecting two different domains with different landing

Hi!

I can't figure out how to have www.a.com land on my a home page and www.b.com land on my /b.html page. Can this be done without forwarding?

If you are asking about two Squarspace domains on the same account going to two different pages on the same Squarespace site, that cannot be done. One of the domains would have to be hosted by a third party. The other option is to have both domains hit the same landing page with two actions posted, each action goes to where it needs to go when clicked. This is the way many Squarespace bllingual sites are set up. Works quite well. 

I'd really like to add this as a feature request. The simple UX for this would be the option to have non-primary domains point to an existing content page.

On 12/22/2020 at 10:02 AM, derricksrandomviews said:

If you are asking about two Squarspace domains on the same account going to two different pages on the same Squarespace site, that cannot be done. One of the domains would have to be hosted by a third party. The other option is to have both domains hit the same landing page with two actions posted, each action goes to where it needs to go when clicked. This is the way many Squarespace bllingual sites are set up. Works quite well. 

I had a similar question to this post - I have multiple domains which were hosted by a third party pointing to different pages on my SquareSpace site. I am now switching them to SquareSpace and just finding out that I can't point them to the different pages any more.

Are you able to direct me on how to have both domains hit the same landing page with two actions? I am new to Square Space and the only action I could find for a domain was setting it as the primary or not. Thank you very much!

On 6/1/2022 at 8:13 PM, DamianKevitt said:

Are you able to direct me on how to have both domains hit the same landing page with two actions?

Unfortunately SS is not setup to deal with domain forwarding.

Update. Apparently this is now available. See below.

This is a service that more established domain providers offer such as GoDaddy. SS's major target market probably has very little need for this kind of feature. You can ask SS to add but I wouldn't hold my breath.

You'll need to stick with one of the big player domain providers to have that feature.

Thank you @creedon That's what I figured. I did send in a feature request to SS. But looks like I'll need to revert to using a third party. 

Two domains will hit the same home page, that page would have two action buttons or links on it for the viewer to choose which page  to go to. There is no automatic action assigned to each domain. 7.0 has landing/cover pages you can choose from, 7.1 with a bit of code allows you to create a landing page by removing the header and footer and adding action buttons or links. I don't have two external domains but I do use a landing page for viewers to choose which index page to view. 

my random views

Very good to know that option is now available.

Yes. Good to know!

Hey I want to do something similar.  I'm sure the answer is already on the page but not sure I can find it.

I currently have www.a.com linked to mysquarespace page

I want to end up with:

www.b.com linked to mysquarespace page
www.a.com linked to mysquarespace/subpage page

I think I need to do two things but would love help to confirm this:

1, connect www.b.com to my account and switch this to my primary address.

2, disconnect www.a.com and then, via the hosting, do a redirect.

Will this work?

Thanks

I think so if you follow the instructions posted by DamianKevitt above.