topic Re: Systematically redirect traffic from one Hub Site to another? in ArcGIS Hub Questions

Systematically redirect traffic from one Hub Site to another?

MRantala — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:02:54 GMT

Hello,

We published a public Hub site with a domain, https://2024cha-carver.hub.arcgis.com/. But then re-worked with the goal of improving accessibility and published that with a new URL https://cha2024-carver.hub.arcgis.com/.

We've updated the link on our main website but are still getting some traffic to the old site. Other than adding a splash page to the old site informing users of the new site, is there any more systematic way to do a 301-style redirect of traffic?

Thanks for any ideas!

Re: Systematically redirect traffic from one Hub Site to another?

AndrewTurner — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:43:02 GMT

Yes, you can add the redirect metatag to your header

However, if you add this then you will not be able to use the Hub layout editor for that site as it will redirect.

If you need to edit the site afterwards, you can remove this technically by editing the item data JSON in the `

headContent`.

In the future, we will consider adding a more explicit option in the Site workspace settings.

Re: Systematically redirect traffic from one Hub Site to another?

MRantala — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 19:25:51 GMT

Awesome, thanks. I am going to build a couple of test sites to verify and make sure I've got the process correct.

Re: Systematically redirect traffic from one Hub Site to another?

MRantala — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:39:51 GMT

I haven't gotten this to work in my test site (https://test20260218-from-carver.hub.arcgis.com/), it is just showing the html as text. Not sure what I'm doing wrong. Attaching screenshots of where I'm setting the custom HTML in the header and what I set it as.

Seems like <meta> is an unrecognized tag to me--did find this list of supported HTML elements, and it's not listed. https://doc.arcgis.com/en/hub/sites/add-text-and-images.htm#ESRI_SECTION1_15E3903373B04DF391D6DF5D15473B44

Re: Systematically redirect traffic from one Hub Site to another?

MRantala — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 18:29:14 GMT

Ok, I figured out that I was indeed trying to enter the <Meta> tag in the wrong location. This is a separate spot to add Meta Tags by going to Settings-Meta Tags for the site. I had some trouble getting the save Setting button in enable so ended up using ArcGIS Assistant to add the tag there.