Go Live, Publish, and Set Up Your Sites Domain

Your site's domain is like its street address; it lets other people find your website home. Setting up your site domain is very important. While BoxCast Sites does not host your domains, you can purchase a domain and connect it to your published site by creating a CNAME and two A records in your DNS settings.

Go Live

Taking your site live requires publishing your site, setting up your domain, and setting up your domain through your domain host.

Publish a Site

For your site to show up at any domain, you first need to publish it. To publish your site:

In your editor, on the top right, click Publish. If your site was previously published, click Republish.

Set up a Domain

After a site is published, you are prompted to select from one of the following domain options:

Default Domain. This is a domain hosted by BoxCast, and is not good for your site’s SEO. The URL will be a subdomain of BoxCast’s with your custom naming. You may use the original default domain.
Use a domain you already own (make sure you added "www." to the URL). You may use a domain that you already own from the domain host you purchased it from. Ensure you add "www." to the URL. If you choose to use your own domain, enter the domain, and then hit Save.

To change your domain at any time after publishing your site, in the side panel, click Settings, Site URL, and then click Change site URL.

If you need assistance in setting up the domain host, we have help for you here.

Domain Host Providers

BoxCast searches most large domain host providers, and we are continually adding more domain host providers. To see a list of supported providers, see the documentation.