Viewing active site details
Use the Site details page to review your site's settings, including any customizations that are enabled regarding origin, redirects, and content policies, and JSON associated with those site customizations.
The Site details page contains three tabs: General, Domains, and Advanced.
The General tab displays information about your site setup. For full details, see ???.
The Domains tab displays the domains associated with your site.
In addition to the default domain name for each site, you can also add custom domain names to each site's configuration. For example, if example.com is your default domain, you might add www.example.com and mobile.example.com as additional domains. While you configure these domains in site setup, other rules may have been added on the Redirects page in Delivery to have these host names redirect to a different location.
The Advanced tab displays any custom configurations that have been added to your site's content distribution network (CDN) settings. These rules appear in an advanced view using JSON, which you can download to review externally. You may want to download the JSON file for the following reasons:
to review customization configured in your site
to use for debugging and better testing, especially in the Sandbox environment
to use for performance analysis, for example, if you change a parameter in alternate origin, you can see how performance improves or degrades
to track changes you make to your web configuration
The Advanced tab has the following areas that contain customizations:
Origins
Content
SSL
Cache
Redirects
Security
Many of these customizations are added during your site launch. To review examples of the types of customizations and the fields that are used in the JSON, see Web Gateway customizations.
Origins
The Origins section displays the site's alternate origins. An alternate origin is content that appears under the main domain name, but from a source other than Arc XP. For example, you could configure an alternate origin to map all traffic to /weather/* to an alternate origin location at weather.example.com.
If any alternate origins are configured in your site, you can view the rules for them in this section. The JSON shows any specific matches required, such as path or hostname and the alternate origin domain name.
Arc XP has a limit of five alternate origins. To set up a new alternate origin, see ???.
Content
The Content section displays information regarding advanced rules based on certain content, for example, rules related to adding a custom header response, server-side paywall settings, or geo-tagging.
If you requested user-targeted customizations, those technical specifications appear in the JSON file. To request user-targeted specifications, see Web Gateway customizations.
SSL
The SSL section displays redirect rules for http requests to https requests.
Cache
The Cache section displays which custom origin paths allow for additional query strings. Arc XP filters most query strings from our cache keys. When we set up custom origins, we must allow custom origin paths to not limit their cache key. These paths typically mirror origin paths from the Origins section.
Redirects
The Redirects section displays a list of redirects associated with this site.
Security
The Security section displays rules associated with this site, such as custom cookie access for a domain. This information includes the hostnames and RegEx rules that have been added or removed.
If you requested user-targeted customizations, those technical specifications appear in the JSON file. To request user-targeted specifications, see Web Gateway customizations.
When managing a high-traffic news site, you must ensure that all site settings are configured correctly to maintain optimal performance and security. Using the Site Settings details page, you quickly review key configurations, including active domains, redirect rules, and security policies.
While troubleshooting a performance issue, you navigate to the Advanced tab to inspect CDN settings and download the JSON file to compare recent changes with previous configurations. You discover that a recent modification to an alternate origin has impacted load times, allowing you to adjust settings and restore performance.
Procedures
Site settings' General tab provides standard information about your site setup. To review these details, follow these steps:
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.
Click the General tab.
Review the following fields:
Site ID - review the Arc XP site ID in the format of [org]-[site]-[environment].
Site Name - review the site name that appears on your site's front end.
Default domain name - review the default domain for your site, which you can use to access your site in a browser.
Web Delivery version - review the current Arc XP Delivery version your site is using. Use this version to reference release notes. See What's New in Delivery.
The next items indicate whether the feature is active or inactive on the site. A blue check indicates the item is active and a gray X indicates it is inactive. Some features may appear in this list prior to being fully available.
Image manager - review whether Image Resizer V2 (Arc XP's solution for image modification) is enabled for your site.
Edge redirector - review whether you have the redirect solution enabled for your site.
Audience targeting - review whether you have audience targeted enabled for your site. Audience targeting lets you provide customized experiences to end-users based on geography, device, and other criteria. See Arc XP's Audience Targeting.
Additional properties
The following fields show how some key files are served.
ROBOTS_TXT_ENGINE - review the robots.txt file you're using to inform the search engine crawlers and bots which URLs the crawler or bot can access on your site.
ROOT_JS_REWRITE - review the JavaScript ROOT file you're using to provide interactive ROOT-like graphics in web browsers and in Node.js.
SITEMAP_ENGINE -review the sitemap file you're using to provide information about hte pages, videos, and other files on your site and the relationships between them.
ADS_TXT_ENGINE - review the ads.txt file you're using to ensure that your digital ad inventory is sold only through sellers, such as AdSense, who you've identified as authorized.
APPADS_TXT_Engine - review the app-ads.txt file you're using to identify authorized digital sellers. The app-ads.txt file is a plain text file hosted on the domain of the app developer's website.
Click
to navigate back to the Site Settings page.
Site setting's Domains tab displays the domains associated with your site. To review these details, follow these steps:
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.
Click the Domains tab.
Review the domains associated with your site.
Click
to navigate back to the Site Settings page.
You can review the advanced settings configured for your site.
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.
Click the Advanced tab.
Review the content listed in any of the sections. For details, see ???.
Click
to navigate back to the Site Settings page.
You can download a JSON file containing your configured alternate origins, user-targeting customizations, security rules to review in an external resource.
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.
Click the Advanced tab.
Click the Origins section.
Click Download JSON. Arc XP downloads a JSON file to your computer.
Click
to navigate back to the Site Settings page.