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Changing your gate's URL

Where the gate is served from, and how to tell the app if you moved it.

By default your age gate is served at:

https://your-store.com/apps/age-verification

The /apps/ part is Shopify’s, not ours — it is how Shopify routes requests to an app proxy. You cannot remove it, but you can swap it for one of three alternatives and change the segment after it.

Shopify allows these prefixes: apps, a, tools, community.

So /a/launch or /tools/age-verification are both possible.

Most stores should never touch thisYour storefront loads the gate from this path behind the scenes — shoppers are not sent here and never see it in the address bar. The only reason to change this field is that you have already changed this app's proxy path in your Shopify admin. Otherwise leave it empty.

Step 1: Change the proxy URL in Shopify

  1. In your Shopify admin, go to Settings → Apps and sales channels.
  2. Find Loman Age Verification, open its … menu, and click View details.
  3. Scroll to App proxy and click Customize URL.
  4. Pick a prefix from the dropdown and edit the sub-path after it.
  5. Click Save.

Your age gate is now served at the new address.

Step 2: Tell the app

Loman Age Verification learns the real path from storefront traffic: the first time a visitor reaches your age gate at the new address, the app records it and follows suit. If you changed the URL before anyone had visited, that first visit never happens, because the old address is still the one being asked for — so tell it directly:

  1. Open Loman Age Verification in your Shopify admin.
  2. Go to the Settings tab.
  3. Under Storefront page path, type the new path including the leading slash — for example /a/launch.
  4. Save.

The field shows the path the app is currently using. Leaving it blank means the default, /apps/age-verification.

If you set a metafield for this in the pastOlder versions of this guide asked you to write a proxy_url shop metafield with a third-party app. The app no longer reads that metafield: the value now lives in the app's own settings, and it copied any existing metafield over when this changed. You can delete the old metafield; it has no effect either way.

Step 3: Check it

  1. Open your storefront in a private window.
  2. Your age gate should appear over it, exactly as before.
  3. Load the new path directly and confirm the age gate renders there on its own.

If the age gate does not appear, or the storefront sits behind a message saying the check could not run, the setting in the app does not match what you configured in Shopify. If the new path is a 404, step 1 did not save. The two paths must agree exactly, leading slash included.

Reverting

Set the app proxy back to /apps/age-verification in Shopify and clear the Storefront page path field in the app.

If you would rather we did it

Email [email protected] with your .myshopify.com domain and the URL you want, and we will set it up with you.

The failure this fixes

It is worth knowing what goes wrong, because the symptom does not point at this setting.

Your theme loads the gate from this path in the background. If you change the app proxy in your Shopify admin and the app does not know, every storefront page asks for an address that no longer serves anything — so no gate appears at all, or your outage message appears over a covered store, depending on how the request fails.

The store looks broken or looks ungated, and nothing in the admin says why. The field in Settings → Storefront page path is the whole fix.

Leave it empty unless you moved it

The app records the path your storefront traffic actually arrives on, so a change made in Shopify usually corrects itself on the next visitor. Typing a path in by hand is only worth doing when that cannot happen — when you changed the proxy before anyone had visited, so there was never a request on the new address for the app to learn from.

Clearing the field restores the default, /apps/age-verification.

Still stuck?

Email [email protected] with your store's .myshopify.com domain and what you were trying to do. Most replies go out within one business day; over a weekend it can take longer.