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title: "Managing installation profiles in your Factory"
date: "2024-02-14T06:18:38+00:00"
summary: "Streamline website creation with custom installation profiles in Site Factory. Learn how to enable and manage profiles, empowering site builders to choose the perfect setup for each new site."
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After adding installation profiles to your custom [distribution](/site-factory/workflow/distro), you can [enable the installation profiles](#acsf-enable-install-profile) to allow site builders to select an installation profile when creating new Site Factory-hosted websites.

When site builders [create a new website](/site-factory/manage/website/groups-create#acsf-create-new-site), they will have the choice of any enabled installation profile. If your code base has a disabled installation profile, the **Create a new site** page won’t display it to site builders.

![Selecting an installation profile when creating a website](https://acquia.widen.net/content/ly4oosregm/jpeg/site-factory_selecting-installation-profiles.jpeg?position=c&color=ffffffff&quality=80&u=u1mnox)

Selecting an installation profile for a website is a one-time choice. You can’t change the installation profile for a website after you create the website.

If you have both added an installation profile to your codebase and deployed it to your platform, but the Site Factory Management Console doesn’t display it, [contact Acquia Support](/service-offerings/support#contact-acquia-support) for help.

Enabling installation profiles
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1.  [Sign in](/site-factory/login) to the [Site Factory Management Console](/site-factory/manage) with an account that has the [platform admin](/site-factory/manage/users/admin/platform-admin) role.
    
2.  In the admin menu, click **Administration**, and then click the **Installation profile management** link.
    
3.  In the **Enabled** column, select the checkboxes for the installation profiles you want to enable for use by site builders.
    
    ![Saving changes to profiles](https://acquia.widen.net/content/3b1rgkhr34/jpeg/site-factory_enabling-installation-profiles.jpeg?position=c&color=ffffffff&quality=80&u=u1mnox)
    
    Note
    
    The installation profile with the **REST API Default** option is the default for websites created using the [Site Factory API](/site-factory/extend/api). This selection doesn’t affect the process for creating websites using the [Site Factory Management Console](/site-factory/manage), and means only if you create a website using the Site Factory API, the default installation profile will be used if you don’t specify a different installation profile.
    
4.  Click **Save settings**.
    

Installation profiles will become available for use after the `SfVersions` task completes. To learn more about monitoring task logs, see [Task logs in Site Factory](/site-factory/monitor/tasklog).