Convenience domain
New environments on the VIP Platform are provisioned with a convenience domain. The convenience domain will be a subdomain of .go-vip.net
or .go-vip.co
(e.g. example.go-vip.net
).
- Convenience domains are covered by a wildcard TLS certificate.
- Environments using a convenience domain are set to the whole-site HTTPS, with all HTTP traffic being redirected to HTTPS; this cannot be changed.
- WordPress environments that are accessible at a convenience domain have a hard-coded
/robots.txt
output intended to prevent search engines from indexing content. - Sub-subdomains of the convenience domain are not supported.
Convenience domains are intended for environments to use during initial development and to facilitate pre-launch tasks. VIP does not allow sites on a production environment to launch with the convenience domain. For a site on production to be publicly accessible, it must be launched with a custom domain (e.g. example.com
).
Non-production environments on the VIP Platform can always use the go-vip.net
or go-vip.co
convenience domain assigned to them. However, there is the option to replace the convenience domain of a non-production environment with a custom domain (e.g. develop.example.com
). The convenience domain for an environment can be replaced with a custom domain by using the single site launch tool, or the network site launch tool.
Last updated: August 30, 2023