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title: "Getting started"
date: "2024-09-27T04:54:43+00:00"
summary: "Learn how to set up, deploy, and manage your Static Site application on Acquia's Front End Hosting - Basic platform."
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In Front End Hosting - Basic, one Static Site application such as Static Site Generator (SSG) is provisioned with three environments:

*   Development (Dev)
    
*   Staging (Stg)
    
*   Production (Prod) 
    

Viewing an application
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1.  Sign in to the Cloud Platform user interface.
2.  In the top menu, click **Develop**.
    
3.  Select your organization.
4.  Select an application.
5.  Click **View <application name>**.
    
    New environments are provisioned with the default content page.
    
    ![Nodejs_application.png](https://acquia.widen.net/content/968b0f78-3777-4fc8-bb2b-f7640815d6ed/web/Nodejs_application.png?w=720&itok=DV16uSlq)
    
6.  To verify that a site is working correctly, visit the default URL of a specific environment.

Adding content
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1.  [Add a public key to your Acquia profile](/acquia-cloud-platform/adding-public-key-acquia-profile "Adding a public key to an Acquia profile").
2.  [Clone the application’s repository](/acquia-cloud-platform/checking-out-local-copy-your-code "Checking out a local copy of your code").
3.  Configure `acquia_config.yaml` or `acquia_config.yml`.
    
    The `acquia_config.yaml` or `acquia_config.yml` file must be located in root folder of your project containing the following configuration:
    
        output_directory: "out/"
        root_directory: "./"
    
    Configuration properties:
    
    *   Output directory: This output directory contains build outputs such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files, which are served for the Front End Hosting - Basic hosting. The default output directory is `html/`. This directory can be overridden by specifying the output directory in the `acquia_config.yaml` or `acquia_config.yml` file.
        
    *   Root directory: The main directory of your project may not always align with your application's build root. For example, a repository might have a `frontend` directory, which contains a stand-alone Next.js application. Therefore, you must set the root directory to ensure that the commands are executed from the correct directory of your project.
        
4.  Create a new branch and push your deployable artifact along with `acquia_config.yaml` or `acquia_config.yml`.
5.  Deploy the branch `<new-branch>` from the Cloud UI.
    
    For more information, visit [Deploying code in the same environment](/node/56318#deploy-code-same-env).
    

Connecting your Git repository to Acquia platform 
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1.  [Add a public key to your Acquia profile](/acquia-cloud-platform/adding-public-key-acquia-profile "Adding a public key to an Acquia profile").
2.  [Check out a local copy of your code](/acquia-cloud-platform/checking-out-local-copy-your-code "Checking out a local copy of your code").
3.  [Copy your code to a new Git repository](/acquia-cloud-platform/copying-your-code-new-git-repository "Copying your code to a new Git repository").

Front End Hosting - Basic subscription details
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For information about viewing your subscription details, visit [Viewing subscriptions](https://docs.acquia.com/acquia-cloud-platform/managing-subscriptions#section-viewing-subscriptions).

Monitoring a Front End Hosting - Basic site
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For information about monitoring a site, visit [Using Stack Metrics to monitor activity on your environments](https://docs.acquia.com/acquia-cloud-platform/monitor-apps/stackmetrics).

References
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*   For information about domain configuration, visit [Managing domains](https://docs.acquia.com/acquia-cloud-platform/manage-apps/domains).
*   For information about  CDN configuration, visit [Cloud Platform CDN](https://docs.acquia.com/acquia-cloud-platform/features/platformcdn).
*   For information about code workflows, visit [Code workflows with Cloud Platform](https://docs.acquia.com/acquia-cloud-platform/manage-apps/code/environments).