Managing site settings
Use the Site Settings page in Delivery to review various aspects of your websites' delivery and performance. This page lets you provision your sites on your own without needing to engage the customer support.
The Site Settings page lists domains and apex domains that are configured for your site, any customizations that are enabled regarding origin, redirects, and content policies, and JSON associated with those site customizations.
Because this information is read-only, you cannot change your site configuration. Instead, you can use this information to stay informed about your site's makeup and better make strategic decisions about your sites.
The Site Settings page contains two tabs: Sites and Apex domains.
The Sites tab displays a list of active and inactive sites configured for your account. Inactive sites are configured in Site Service but do not yet have a customer-facing website. You can provision an inactive website to make it active.
Active sites can have the following statuses:
Live - provisioned on the Arc XP platform
Onboarding - being migrated onto the Arc XP platform
You can view more details about any of your active sites. See Viewing active site details.
The Apex domains tab displays any apex domain rules currently set up in your account along with the redirect target. An apex domain (also known as a root domain) is a domain that does not have a subdomain previse like www. For example, in example.com, the apex domain is example.com, whereas www.example.com is a subdomain.
Typically, you set up a redirect rule to redirect requests from your apex domain to your www subdomain. For example, example.com might redirect to www.example.com.
To add apex domains, see ???.
Prerequisites
To use the Site Settings page in Delivery, you must have the following:
the Site Manager permission. Users without this permission have read-only access to site provisioning.
Note
Grant the Site Manager permission with caution. Provisioning a website may incur additional costs for your organization depending on your contract terms.
ensure your organization is already configured on Arc XP.
create the Site ID in Site Service for the environment where you want to establish a site. Each website is automatically assigned a Site ID.
As the digital operations manager, you need to verify the configuration of several regional news sites to ensure they are properly set up on the Arc XP platform.
You open the Site Settings page in Delivery where you review the Sites tab to check the status of each site, confirming that all but one are live, while a newly acquired publication is still in the onboarding phase.
Switching to the Apex domains tab, you ensure that each apex domain correctly redirects to its corresponding www domain. Because the page is read-only, you can't make direct changes, but the information helps you identify a potential misconfiguration in one site's redirects. With this insight, you contact the technical team to fix the issue.
Procedures
You can review setting details for any of your active sites, including any customizations that are enabled regarding origin, redirects, and content policies, and JSON associated with those site customizations.
Navigate to the Delivery application.
Click Site Settings. The Site Settings page opens.
Click View next to the active site that you want to view details for. The Site Setting details page opens.
You can provision a site to make it publicly available. Note that provisioning takes approximately 20 minutes, and when complete, the system assigns a publicly available Arc XP CDN domain to the site.
Every Arc XP site receives a unique arc-cdn.net URL. You can use this URL for testing your changes on any Arc XP environment, having a full render stack configuration (like CDN caches and CDN configurations).
To provision an inactive site and make it active, follow these steps:
Navigate to the Delivery application.
Click Site Settings. The Site Settings page opens.
Select the check box next to the inactive sites you want to provision.
Click Provision selected sites. The Provision sites window opens.
Click Provision to confirm you want to proceed.
When the system finishes provisioning your site, your websites appears in the Active section. Click the name of the site to view details related to the site.
You must contact Arc XP Customer Support to request Arc XP to deprovision a site for you.