Can Shopify redirect URLs to a different IP while preserving SEO?

Hi guys I have a question for you.

I have a domain that I’m planning to move to Shopify. But in the mid-time, I want to maintain some URLs in my actual server. So I can move part of my content and not lose the SEO for the URLs that I can’t move yet.

I know that I can create a .htacess rule in my actual server to redirect to something like shop.my-site.com, but I don’t want to create a subdomain, so I would like to point to my main domain to you but still have the ability to point some URLs to other IP.

Example:

These URLs must point to Shopify.

But this one must point to my actual server

This is very important to me because I don’t want to lose my ranking.

So the questions are:

  • Has Shopify the option to redirect URLs to a different IP?

I’m not an expert in this kind of thing but I think that it must be done using DNS because I don’t want to point to a different URL.

So I don’t want this: https://my-site.com/some-page → https://**old.**my-site.com/some-page

I want to maintain the URL but pointed to other server.

  • Has Shopify the option to redirect the 404 errors to a different IP?