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 or go-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 at http://www.domain.com and anyone who goes to domain.com will automatically be redirected to http://www.domain.com. If you do not include www here, your website will be at domain.com and anyone who goes to http://www.domain.com will automatically be redirected to domain.com.
• For multisite environments, redirects between the www and non-www URLs do not occur automatically and will need to be set up in the vip-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.