You can use the following steps to associate custom domain names with your websites and site collections hosted on Acquia Cloud Site Factory:
If you have more than one custom domain name you want to add to your hosted website or site collection, use these procedures for each custom domain name. Websites with custom domains count against your subscription’s maximum number of websites; for more information on checking your total number of websites with custom domains, see Managing subscription usage.
You can add custom domain names to websites and site collections before purchasing the name from your domain name registrar.
For information about the additional steps necessary to configure path-based domains, see Using path-based domain names.
Your Acquia Cloud Site Factory is provisioned with a default domain name,
ending in .acsitefactory.com. This default domain name remains, even after
you attach custom domain names to your websites and site collections. When
developing, be aware of the following considerations for .acsitefactory.com domains:
acsitefactory.com domains can’t use SSL, because you can only
add SSL certificates to custom domains.*.acsitefactory.com domains are excluded from search engine
indexing.*.customer.acsitefactory.com. For more
information about stack naming, see Getting started with stacks.If you haven’t already done so, purchase a second-level domain name for your
website or site collection (for example, example.com).
You can buy a domain name from a domain name registrar, a company or
organization managing and selling domain names under the supervision of ICANN. Domain name registrars control how domain names
are managed on DNS (Domain Name System) servers. DNS translates
machine-readable computer addresses, such as 184.73.171.26, to memorable
addresses, such as www.example.com.
Acquia is not a domain name registrar and does not provide DNS services. The ICANN website maintains a list of ICANN-accredited registrars.
Select a domain name registrar based on the following recommendations to provide the best experience with Acquia Cloud Site Factory to you and your website visitors.
Choose a domain name registrar that supports using CNAME records for domain names.
(A CNAME record tells DNS the domain name site visitors enter in their browsers is an alias of another domain name—in your case, your Acquia Cloud Site Factory-hosted website.)
Ensure the domain name registrar you choose offers DNS services.
Some domain name registrars use objects called iframes to redirect site visitors to existing websites when using the new domain name. Because iframes block several Acquia Cloud Site Factory functions from use (including the ThemeBuilder), you cannot use the iframe redirect method for your new domain name. We recommend you use CNAME records or A Records for your domain names.
Access your website at the new domain URL provided by your registrar, and then view the HTML page source in your browser.
If the page source contains frame-related tags, as in the following example, your registrar uses iframes for your website:
<!-- frames -->
<frameset rows="50%,75" border="0" framespacing="0">
<frame name="destframe" src="http://[site URL]" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="auto" frameborder="0">
<frame src="http://example.registrar.com/us?example.com" name="bottom" frameborder="0" scrolling="NO" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" noresize>
</frameset><noframes></noframes>
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