staging Domain hwoto

Powie

I added a staging domain under Platform Settings. However, the domain isn't available on the EH DNS servers.
Anything else I have to do?

Adam

The staging domain is used as a suffix whenever you or your customers create a staging website. It's also used for auto generated preview links for non-staging websites.

Adding the staging domain doesn't create a zone for the staging domain itself. If you want it to resolve you can also add it as a website.

tecreasey

Adam do you mean to create a website for the staging domain itself?

Adam

Yes, just to make LetsEncrypt happy. We're considering doing this automatically in an upcoming update.

bgeek

Adam I think this function still hasn't been added, or?

I just did a test, subdomain.mystagingdomain.com can be resolved without a problem. But got error when trying to add SSL through LetsEncrypt. It says there's DNS problem with mystagingdomain.com.

mike

bgeek i believe u still need to add mystagingdomain.com as a website for it to work

bgeek

mike Yes, I realized it this morning, when dealing with my current confusion, lol