Toggle the privacy of preview URLs

Making an environment public means that all deployments to that environment will be public. The number of public environments you can have is based your Shopify plan.

1. From your Shopify admin, under Sales channels, click Hydrogen.
2. In the Hydrogen storefronts interface, select the storefront that you want to change.
3. Beside an environment name, click ….
4. Click Edit environment.
5. Under URL privacy, select Public or Private.
6. Click Save.

1. From your Shopify admin, under Sales channels, click Hydrogen.
2. In the Hydrogen storefronts interface, select the storefront that you want to change.
3. Under an environment, click the deployment that you want to update.
4. Click Actions.
5. Click Make deployment public or Make deployment private.

You can make deployments public for a set period of time, after which they revert to private.

1. From your Shopify admin, under Sales channels, click Hydrogen.
2. In the Hydrogen storefronts interface, select the storefront that you want to change.
3. Under an environment, click the Git commit deployment that you want to share.
4. Click Actions.
5. Click Make deployment temporarily public.
6. Select how long to make the deployment public.
7. Click Save.

If you set a custom environment or preview deployment to public, then Oxygen overrides the robots.txt file with a disallow rule for all bots and crawlers. This helps prevent search engines from serving duplicate results or exposing site content prematurely. Learn more about Hydrogen SEO.

• Learn how to troubleshoot Oxygen deployments by accessing runtime logs and downloading worker bundles for deployments.