Fliplet makes it easy to publish your app to the web so that users can access it directly from any browser without needing to download it to their device. This article explains how to publish your app using Fliplet and outlines the two available publishing options: a standard Fliplet-generated URL or a custom domain.

Publishing options

When publishing your app to the web with Fliplet, you have two options:

  1. Use a Fliplet-generated URL: The fastest and simplest method—ideal for internal use, prototypes, or general availability. Fliplet will host your app on a subdomain such as https://apps.fliplet.com/your-app.
  2. Use your own custom domain: Best for public-facing apps where branding and trust are important. Additional steps are required to configure DNS records and verify ownership.
    Note: This feature is available on our paid plans only

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Option – Publish using a Fliplet URL

  1. Publish your app to the web
  2. Distribution options

Option 2 – Publish using a custom domain

  1. Configure your custom domain in Fliplet Studio
  2. Verify domain ownership and enable SSL
  3. Finalize subdomain association

Option 1 – Publish using a Fliplet URL

  1. Whilst inside your project, click the “Publish” button in the top right of Fliplet Studio.
  2. You will land on the Publishing Dashboard. Next to “Web project,” select “Publish to web”
  3. Your app will automatically be given a URL, but to edit this, select “more publishing options”
  4. Next to “Publish to the web via a URL ” choose edit
  5. From here, you can also copy the URL and unpublish the app
  6. You can also show the embed code that will allow you to embed the app on another web page
  7. After you have published your app, you will also have access to share individual screens. Click the settings icon next to a screen in Edit mode and you will see this dropdown:
  8. “Copy shareable link” will add the link to your clipboard so you can paste it in an email or wherever you’d like.
  9.  Optional: Configure SEO settings for your web app 

Options of distributing your web app

  1. URL from Fliplet
    When publishing your web app you will be provided with a URL that users can use to access the app.
  2. Embed web app within an existing web page
    When publishing your app you will be given the option to “see embed code”. This will allow you to embed the app on another web page. For more help see here.
  3. Redirect an existing URL to your Fliplet web app URL
    For example, redirect     https://example.com/my-app to https://apps.fliplet.com/my-app
    To redirect from your web page you will need to use JavaScript, HTML meta tags, or your web server.  
    1. For JavaScript put this code into the webpage you want to redirect users from
       
      window.location.replace("http://www.w3schools.com");  
    2. For HTML meta tag put this code into the webpage you want to redirect users from
       
      <html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1;url=https://apps.fliplet.com/my-app" />
<title>Page Moved</title>
</head
    3. For Windows IIS web server see here.
    4. For Apache web server see here. 

Option 2 – Publish using a custom domain

Note: This feature is available on our paid plans only

 Configure your custom domain in Fliplet Studio

  1. Open your app in Fliplet Studio
  2. Click the Publish button in the top right corner
  3. Click into the Web dashboard
  4. Under the live web url select “Publish to the web via a URL”, click Add Custom Domain
  5. Follow the steps in this article to continue setting up your custom domain 

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