Domains
Convenience domains
- Each new VIP Go environment is provisioned with a convenience domain for use during initial development and to facilitate pre-launch tasks. The convenience domain will be a subdomain of
.go-vip.net
or.go-vip.co
(e.g.example.go-vip.net
). - To ensure your site is as secure as possible, we do not allow launched production sites to use the convenience domain and you must procure a custom domain (e.g.
example.com
), before your site launches. - Non-production sites on VIP Go can continue to use the
go-vip.net
orgo-vip.co
convenience subdomain, which is covered by a wildcard TLS certificate. All sites using this convenience subdomain are set to the whole-site HTTPS option described above, with all HTTP traffic being redirected to HTTPS; this cannot be changed. - Non-production environments are highly encouraged to use a mapped domain (e.g.
develop.example.com
). - Sub-subdomains of the convenience domain are not currently supported.
FQDNs
VIP Go can support either the www
or non-www
variant of your domain as the fully qualified domain name (FQDN).
- For single site environments, if you include
www
here, your website will be athttp://www.domain.com
and anyone who goes todomain.com
will automatically be redirected tohttp://www.domain.com
. If you do not includewww
here, your website will be atdomain.com
and anyone who goes tohttp://www.domain.com
will automatically be redirected todomain.com
. - For multisite environments, redirects between the
www
and non-www
URLs do not occur automatically and will need to be set up in thevip-config.php file
. More information on adding redirects is available here.
Adding and mapping domains
- Domains are added and mapped in the VIP Dashboard.
- All mapped domains on VIP Go require a TLS certificate. Procurement, installation, and renewal of certificates can be handled by the VIP Team.