The Domains page serves as your central dashboard. It lists all domains associated with your Acquia subscription and their current provisioning status. From this page, you can initialize security tenancy, ensure ownership, and manage your DNS configuration to proxy traffic through the Edge network.
Key elements
Domain overview table: A central list of all domains associated with your subscription, along with their current status.
Search functionality: Enables you to easily filter and find specific domains.
DNS information panel: Displays the specific Canonical Name (CNAME) records required for both Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) ownership validation and final traffic repointing.
Provisioning statuses
To protect a site, a domain must progress through the following statuses:
Not configured: This domain does not have a tenancy created on Edge Standard. It is not yet ready to receive traffic.
Connecting to Edge: The Edge network is configuring the connection. This setup typically takes a few minutes.
Ownership validation pending: (Action Required) Acquia must ensure that you own the domain before a security certificate can be issued. You must add the SSL CNAME record to your DNS registrar account website. Need help? Learn about domain ownership validation.
Ready for DNS repointing: Validation is successful, and your SSL certificate is provisioned. The domain is ready for you to update your authoritative DNS record to the provided Acquia Edge CNAME.
Note
Website downtime begins during the repointing process. Complete this step promptly to minimize the impact.
Configured: The domain successfully serves traffic proxied over Acquia Edge Standard.
Configuring your domains
The provisioning process starts from the Domains page, where you select the available domains that you want to route through the Edge network.
Locate the domain in the table and select Configure Edge from the actions menu. The status changes to Connecting to Edge.
Validate domain ownership
After the status changes to Ownership validation pending, you must complete the security handshake:
Open the DNS Information panel to obtain your unique SSL CNAME.
Log in to your DNS registrar account website, for example, GoDaddy or Amazon Web Services (AWS) Route 53.
Add the SSL CNAME record as a new CNAME entry in your DNS settings with host name _acme-challenge.<example.com>
The system searches for the record.
The status advances to Ready for DNS repointing.
Repoint production DNS
Copy the Traffic CNAME record from the DNS Information panel.
Update the authoritative DNS settings at your registrar to point your domain to this record. After traffic is confirmed, the status shows as Configured.
Limitations
Apex domains: This offering does not currently support bare domains, for example, example.com without the www.
Propagation delays: DNS changes can take up to 24 hours to take effect globally, depending on your Time to Live (TTL) settings.
Domain management
The Domains page serves as your central dashboard. It lists all domains associated with your Acquia subscription and their current provisioning status. From this page, you can initialize security tenancy, ensure ownership, and manage your DNS configuration to proxy traffic through the Edge network.
Key elements
Domain overview table: A central list of all domains associated with your subscription, along with their current status.
Search functionality: Enables you to easily filter and find specific domains.
DNS information panel: Displays the specific Canonical Name (CNAME) records required for both Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) ownership validation and final traffic repointing.
Provisioning statuses
To protect a site, a domain must progress through the following statuses:
Not configured: This domain does not have a tenancy created on Edge Standard. It is not yet ready to receive traffic.
Connecting to Edge: The Edge network is configuring the connection. This setup typically takes a few minutes.
Ownership validation pending: (Action Required) Acquia must ensure that you own the domain before a security certificate can be issued. You must add the SSL CNAME record to your DNS registrar account website. Need help? Learn about domain ownership validation.
Ready for DNS repointing: Validation is successful, and your SSL certificate is provisioned. The domain is ready for you to update your authoritative DNS record to the provided Acquia Edge CNAME.
Note
Website downtime begins during the repointing process. Complete this step promptly to minimize the impact.
Configured: The domain successfully serves traffic proxied over Acquia Edge Standard.
Configuring your domains
The provisioning process starts from the Domains page, where you select the available domains that you want to route through the Edge network.
Locate the domain in the table and select Configure Edge from the actions menu. The status changes to Connecting to Edge.
Validate domain ownership
After the status changes to Ownership validation pending, you must complete the security handshake:
Open the DNS Information panel to obtain your unique SSL CNAME.
Log in to your DNS registrar account website, for example, GoDaddy or Amazon Web Services (AWS) Route 53.
Add the SSL CNAME record as a new CNAME entry in your DNS settings with host name _acme-challenge.<example.com>
The system searches for the record.
The status advances to Ready for DNS repointing.
Repoint production DNS
Copy the Traffic CNAME record from the DNS Information panel.
Update the authoritative DNS settings at your registrar to point your domain to this record. After traffic is confirmed, the status shows as Configured.
Limitations
Apex domains: This offering does not currently support bare domains, for example, example.com without the www.
Propagation delays: DNS changes can take up to 24 hours to take effect globally, depending on your Time to Live (TTL) settings.
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