The community member is disappointed with the lack of control over technical SEO features in Webstudio, such as the inability to create custom 404 pages, control robots.txt, manage redirects, and other issues. They find these limitations make Webstudio unusable for sites that rely on SEO. In the comments, another community member suggests the current approach is to create a dynamic page with a /* path and 404 status code. The original poster finds this helpful and suggests adding documentation about 404 pages. The community members also discuss contributing to the Webstudio documentation to help address these issues.
Is there any way to create custom 404 pages for a project hosted through Webstudio? There's nothing about 404 pages in the doc and after having spent 2-3 days on setting up a site in it that I planned on launching today, I have to say I'm kind of shocked by the sloppy DevOps design particularly when it comes to SEO: Zero control over robots.txt, no custom 404 pages, no control over trailing slashes vs non trailing slashes (and appropriate redirects), limited control over redirects because of the attempt to cram this into the GUI instead of just using a plain editable _redirects file, etc.. These issues make Webstudio practically unusable for sites that rely on SEO and yet its "SEO features" are being promoted in the main nav when in reality it doesn't even cover the most basic fundamentals of technical SEO, like being able to control the robots.txt content or managing hundreds of redirects in a manner that doesn't require the customer to spend a week adding them one by one via the GUI.
^ I know the above doesn't sound very exiting, but please take it as constructive feedback. The builder itself is great and I was really looking forward to launching my first Webstudio site, which is why I'm so disappointed by the above issues that make it impossible for me to use your otherwise amazing solution in prod.
Perfect, I didn't know that and didn't find anything in your doc. Might make sense to add a page about 404 pages that explains this so people are aware π
Oh, I didn't know that and will certainly contribute to the docs with whatever I learn here to help you out a little and not just annoy you with questions and issues all day for nothing :))