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Domains & SSL
The Domains group of the account panel: the sites of your account, other names for your main site, redirects, the DNS zone of your domains, who receives their mail, and free SSL certificates.
Domains
Your sites: the main site, addon domains (a domain of their own, such as othersite.com) and subdomains (such as shop.example.com). Each site has its own folder, PHP settings and certificate.
- Add domain: a domain you registered, or a subdomain of one of yours. Choose where its files go: a new folder in your home folder, or one inside
public_htmlsuch aspublic_html/shop. Tick Also www. for the www name, and Email for this site for mailboxes at the domain (usually not needed for a subdomain; you can turn it on later). - Then point the domain at the server: where you registered it, or wherever its DNS is, give it and its
www.an A record with the server's address, which the page shows. Once it points here, get it a free certificate under SSL certificates. - The Email column turns each site's email on or off. Off is refused while the site has mailboxes. If a site should have email but is not set up for it, Fix mail problem sets it up.
- Remove: the site stops opening from this server, and its PHP settings and certificate go too. Tick Also delete to delete its folder and everything in it; a folder that also holds another site's files is kept. A site that still has mailboxes cannot be removed.
A name that is the server's own hostname, or a domain of another account, cannot be added. Your package may limit how many addon domains and subdomains you have.
Aliases
An alias opens your main site under another name, with the same files: a second domain such as example.net, www, or *.example.com for every subdomain. A Let's Encrypt certificate of the site is extended to cover it. When the alias's zone is on your provider's DNS, its DNS record can be made for you. For a site with its own folder, add a domain instead.
Redirects
A redirect sends visitors of a site, or of one address of it, to another address: a moved page, a new domain, a shop on another site.
- Which address: the whole site, or one address (the path after the domain, such as
/old-page), optionally also everything under it. With or without www, or only one of them. - Keep the rest of the address:
/old/page?x=1goes to the same path on the new site. - Permanent (301): browsers and search engines remember the new address. Temporary (302): for a short while, such as during a sale or maintenance.
A redirect is checked before the site's own files, so the page that was there is no longer shown. Certificate checks (/.well-known/acme-challenge/) are never redirected, so certificates keep renewing.
DNS zone
Shown when your hosting provider manages DNS for the server. It lists the records of your domains' zones and lets you add, change and remove them:
| Type | For |
|---|---|
| A / AAAA | The IPv4 / IPv6 address of a name: where its website is. |
| CNAME | A name that takes all its records from another name. It cannot have other records, and not on the domain itself. |
| MX | A server that takes mail for the name. A lower priority is tried first. |
| TXT | Text for other services: SPF, DKIM, DMARC, proof that you own the domain. |
| SRV | Where a service runs (calls, chat, mail setup), such as _sip._tcp. |
| CAA | Which certificate authorities may issue certificates for the name. |
Use @ (or nothing) for the domain itself, www, shop or _dmarc for a name in it, and * for every name without records of its own. Changes are made at once at the DNS provider; other DNS servers may keep the old answer until its TTL runs out. The name servers and the SOA record are not changed here: name servers are chosen where the domain is registered. Names under the server's hostname or another account's domain are locked.
Domains whose DNS is somewhere else, such as where they were registered, are listed apart: change their records there.
Mail provider
Who receives the email of your domains: this server, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Zoho Mail or another provider. Choosing one sets the domain's MX and SPF records for you, plus what that provider needs (its verification code, for example). This server stays allowed in SPF, so your websites' contact forms and orders still send. Your mailboxes, forwarders and DKIM keys here are kept, in case you come back.
The same card edits the domain's SPF (the services that send mail for it, and what happens to mail from any other server: mark it as suspicious, refuse it, or no opinion) and DMARC (deliver and only report, spam folder, or refuse mail that fails the checks, and where daily reports go). Terms they do not know are kept, and an SPF record over 10 lookups is refused because receivers would reject it.
SSL certificates
Each site with its certificate: who issued it, until when, and which of its names it covers. Get a free certificate (Let's Encrypt) covers the site's names that point to this server; names that do not point here yet are left out, and Add the missing names adds them later. Free certificates renew by themselves about a month before they expire. A site with only This server (self-signed) opens with a browser warning.
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