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Changing your page's URL

Replacing the /apps/coming-soon path with something you prefer — and the metafield that makes it stick.

By default your page is served at:

https://your-store.com/apps/coming-soon

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/coming-soon are both possible.

Most stores should skip thisVisitors are redirected here automatically and rarely read the address bar. This is worth doing if you are linking to the page directly in a campaign and want a tidier URL — otherwise the default is fine, and changing it has two steps that must agree.

Step 1: Change the proxy URL in Shopify

  1. In your Shopify admin, go to Settings → Apps and sales channels.
  2. Find Coming Soon, 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 page is now served at the new address. It is also, at this point, half-configured — the app embed still redirects visitors to the old one.

Step 2: Tell the app about it

The redirect that sends visitors to your page reads the destination from a shop metafield. Until you set it, the embed keeps sending people to /apps/coming-soon, which no longer exists.

You need a metafield app to write it — Metafields Guru is a free one that works.

  1. Install a metafield editor from the Shopify App Store.
  2. Open the Shop resource (the store itself, not a product or collection).
  3. Create a new metafield:
Field Value
Namespace lg_coming_soon
Key proxy_url
Type Single line text
Value Your new path, including the leading slash — e.g. /a/launch
  1. Save.
The namespace changedOlder versions of this guide said se_coming_soon. That is no longer the namespace the app reads — a metafield under the old name is ignored, and the redirect will keep pointing at the default path. Use lg_coming_soon. If you set the old one previously, delete it.

Step 3: Check it

  1. Open your storefront in a private window.
  2. You should be redirected to your new path.
  3. Load the new path directly and confirm your page renders.

If you are redirected to the old path, the metafield is missing, misspelled, or under the wrong namespace. If you land on a 404, step 1 did not save or the value does not match what you configured in Shopify.

The two must agree exactly, leading slash included.

Reverting

Delete the metafield and set the app proxy back to /apps/coming-soon in Shopify. With no metafield present, the app falls back to the default path.

If you would rather we did it

This is fiddly and involves a third-party app just to write one value. Email support@theloman.group with your .myshopify.com domain and the URL you want, and we will talk you through it or set the metafield for you.

Still stuck?

Email support@theloman.group 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.