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How do I change the URLs of my SuperSite and PartnerSite?
8Hosting.com provides you with Partially Branded URLs for your
SuperSite and PartnerSite. You can choose
to direct visitors to your SuperSite to this URL. Alternatively, you can
maintain complete anonymity from 8Hosting.com, by setting up a fully branded URL.
IMPORTANT
The fully branded URL
of your SuperSite can not be the same as that of your PartnerSite, or your
Storefront.
You must create different branded URLs for these interfaces, in order to have
the SuperSite, PartnerSite as well as your Storefront functional at all times.
Follow the process mentioned below to set your branded URLs:
Partially Branded URLs
By default, you have a Partially Branded URL of the form - http://<prefix>.supersite.myorderbox.com.
Now,
you can select the prefix of your choice. Ideally it should be your Company Name
or your Brand Name. You would then have to submit your selected prefix from your
Control Panel. Follow the process outlined below to change the prefix:
- Login to your Reseller Control Panel from
http://44601.myorderbox.com/reseller.
- In the Control Panel you need to go to Settings -> SuperSite and PartnerSite -> URL
- Scroll down to the Partially Branded URL
Settings section. Here, you need to enter your selected prefix. On
submitting the same, the prefix would be assigned to you, and would be
common to all your partially branded URLs, i.e. SuperSite URL, PartnerSite
URL, Control Panel URL, etc.
In
case this prefix is not available, you would have to select another.
IMPORTANT
- Even after your partially branded prefix is
changed, the old prefix cannot be used by anyone else except you for a period of
30 days. After 30 days, however, the prefix would become available for anyone to
utilize.
- If upon changing your prefix, you wish to
revert to the same (within this 30 day period), you may do so by following
the process outlined above.
Fully Branded URLs
Besides partially Branded URLs, you can point
your own URLs to our servers and use those as your Fully Branded URLs. 8Hosting.com allows
you to have as many Fully Branded URLs as you wish; however, you would have to
create the relevant DNS Record for each of the URL you select.
Setting up your Fully Branded SuperSite URL
This involves the following two steps -
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Adding relevant DNS record
If you have the partially Branded SuperSite URL in the form http://mybrandname.supersite.myorderbox.com
and wish to set your fully Branded SuperSite URL as http://products.mybrandname.com,
you need to create a CNAME record for products.mybrandname.com to
point to partially Branded SuperSite URL
mybrandname.supersite.myorderbox.com.
The CNAME record would be
products.mybrandname.com IN CNAME
mybrandname.supersite.myorderbox.com
Click
here to read how to create a CNAME record >>
However, if you wish to point mybrandname.com
also to your SuperSite, the process would be slightly different. You need to
buy Domain Forwarding for mybrandname.com and point it to products.mybrandname.com,
with the URL Masking option enabled.
Click here to
read about Domain Forwarding service >>
This is because if you create a CNAME record for mybrandname.com,
you would not be able to use mybrandname.com
for email purposes. In other words, it is not possible to have a CNAME
record for mybrandname.com and at the same, use mybrandname.com for
email purposes. If you wish to have your fully Branded
SuperSite URL as http://mybrandname.com and would also like to create email
addresses of the type example@mybrandname.com, you need to use the Domain
Forwarding option instead of a CNAME record.
Setting the URL within the Control Panel
Follow the process outlined below to enter your fully Branded SuperSite
URLs through the Control Panel -
- Login to your Reseller Control Panel from
http://44601.myorderbox.com/reseller.
- In the Control Panel you need to go to
Settings -> SuperSite and PartnerSite -> URL.
- Click on SuperSite URL.
- Here, you will
be prompted to enter the fully Branded URL which you intend to
use for your SuperSite.
- Next, you may specify any additional URLs
you wish to point to your SuperSite. However, for each of these you would
have to create a separate CNAME record pointing to 8Hosting.com
Servers as created for the Primary SuperSite URL.
- Click on Update.
Setting up your Fully Branded PartnerSite URL
This involves the following two steps -
- Adding relevant DNS record
If you have the partially Branded URL in the form http://mybrandname.myorderbox.com
and wish to set your fully Branded PartnerSite URL as http://some-name.mybrandname.com,
you need to create an A record for some-name.mybrandname.com to point to 67.15.184.29.
The A record would be -
some-name.mybrandname.com IN A 67.15.184.29
IMPORTANT
67.15.184.29 is
the actual IP address to which the A record for the fully Branded
PartnerSite URL needs to be mapped.
Click
here to read how to create an A record >>
- Setting the URL within the Control Panel
Follow the process outlined below to enter your fully Branded
PartnerSite URLs through the Control Panel -
- Login to your Reseller Control Panel from
http://44601.myorderbox.com/reseller.
- In the Control Panel you need to go to
Settings -> SuperSite and PartnerSite -> URL.
- Click on PartnerSite URL.
- Here, you will
be prompted to enter the fully Branded URL which you intend to
use for your PartnerSite.
- Next, you may specify any additional URLs
you wish to point to your PartnerSite. However, for each of these you would
have to create a separate A record pointing to 8Hosting.com
Servers as created for the Primary PartnerSite URL.
- Click on Update.
IMPORTANT
The SuperSite and PartnerSite contain information
about your Partially/Fully Branded SuperSite and PartnerSite URLs. This data is downloaded to your SuperSite and
PartnerSite from your Control Panel and stored on the SuperSite and
PartnerSite Server respectively. Therefore, after
making any change to the SuperSite or PartnerSite URLs, you would need to
refresh cache of your SuperSite and PartnerSite.
You can accomplish this from within your Control Panel itself by clicking on Tools -> Reload SuperSite
& PartnerSite Cache -> SuperSite & PartnerSite Reseller Branding.
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