Add and map a domain to a site
Domains for sites on the VIP Platform are added in the VIP Dashboard. Domains have specific environment associations, so be sure to select the environment from the dropdown your domain will point to before following the directions below. A dropdown with a list of existing environments is located at the upper left of the Domains panel.
Prerequisites
Users must have access to the VIP Dashboard to add a domain.
Add a domain
Caution
Adding the domain with or without www
will determine the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) for a site.
For WordPress multisite environments, redirects between the www
 and non-www
 URLs do not occur automatically. These redirects will need to be set up in the vip-config.php file.
WordPress single site
- Navigate to the VIP Dashboard and select the “Domains” panel option at the left.
- Add the domain by selecting the “+ Add Domain” button located in the upper right.
- Enter the domain and select “Add Domain“.
- After a short wait, the domain will appear in the list of domains associated with the environment.
WordPress multisite
- Navigate to the VIP Dashboard and select the “Domains” panel option at the left.
- Add the domain by selecting the “+ Add Domain” button located in the upper right.
- Enter the domain and select “Add Domain“.
- Select “Skip” to complete the process of adding the domain without launching a subsite.
- After a short wait, the domain will appear in the list of domains associated with the environment.
Point DNS to VIP
Once you’ve confirmed that the site is ready to go public, point the DNS for your domain to VIP to make the VIP site available to the public.
Note
If your site has a reverse proxy configuration review the set up instructions before updating DNS for your domain.
- To the right of each domain, the “•••” button opens an overflow menu to access DNS information for that domain.
- The “Setup your DNS” panel in the VIP Dashboard provides the values to point your domain to VIP using
ALIAS
,ANAME
, orA Record
s for root domains andCNAME
records for subdomains. Select and copy a record value from the “Setup your DNS” panel and follow the instructions from your own domain registrar or DNS host to add a new DNS entry.
VIP recommends usingALIAS
records to route your DNS for root domains whenever possible.
Once the DNS for a domain is updated to point to VIP, the speed at which the new VIP site becomes visible at your environment URL will depend on the Time To Live (TTL) that you set for the domain with your domain provider. DNS can take up to a full 24 hours to propagate around the world. We recommend using a service like DNS Checker to confirm that your DNS was pointed correctly and ensure that it is propagating successfully.
You can also run a command via the Command Line Interface (CLI) to confirm that your DNS is pointed correctly to the ALIAS
, ANAME
, A record
, or CNAME
provided via the VIP Dashboard:
$ dig www.example.com