Each environment in a sitegroup on the Cloud Platform has a unique sitename. The sitename naming convention consists of the sitegroup and the abbreviated environment name.
For example, if the name of the sitegroup is acquia
, and it has the three standard environments (development, stage, and production), the website can have three docroot directories. Those directories are respectively named acquiadev
, acquiastg
, and acquiaprod
.
Naming requirements for permanent environments
Sitenames for permanent environments have the following naming requirements:
- Total length can be no more than 16 characters
- The environment part of the sitename can be no more than 10 characters
- Must consist of alphanumeric characters; underscores, spaces, and special characters aren’t allowed
- All alphanumeric characters must be lowercase
- Must not begin with a number
Note
Production environment sitenames generally don’t include the environment abbreviation prod
. As a result, the production environment’s sitename is often the same as its sitegroup.
Naming requirements for on-demand environments
On-demand environments are named sequentially (example.ode1
, example.ode2
, example.ode3
) based on the sitegroup name.