Deploy a Professional instance

Overview

A Professional instance is a single instance with CMS of you choice, that comes with all of Wcstack's pro-features like Database access, SFTP access, DevOps Publishing, Backup& Restore and more.

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You can deploy only one CMS type at a time. If you want to have multiple CMS types, you can order multiple professional instances.

Step-by-step instructions

1. Login to Wcstack

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2. Click on New Instance

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3. Select a CMS family

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4. Select a CMS

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5. Select Professional plan

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6. Select Cloud provider and prefered Region

Click Next to continue to confogure your sanbdbox instance

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7. Domain configuration

With professional plan you can either use your own domain or use the default free subdomain from Wcstack (i,e yoursite.wcstack.com)

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To use your own domain, fill the below fields in the following order. www.mywebsite.com

  • www = This can be anything you want, eg: myblog, myaccount, xyz
  • mywebsite.com = This is your own domain you already have registered. eg: example.com

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8. Enter CMS Admin details and Deploy Sandbox

Enter your username and password along with your email address and click Submit to deploy your Sandbox instance.

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This is your credentials to login to your CMS after the deploy.

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9. Deploy confirmation

You will see the notification on the right botton corner about your instance creation.

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10. Point your domain to newly created instance

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You need to create/update your DNS record to point to the newly create instance's Public DNS CNAME record.

  • Navigate to instance details page

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  • Copy the hostname of your new instance

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  • Create/Update the DNS records with your exisiting domain host
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For example we are taking Godaddy as your Domain host.

  • Click on Add button from the bottom of the page

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  • Select CNAME as the type, Host is the first part of your full website (eg: www) and paste the coppied Hostname from the previous step to the Points to field.

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11. Verify your website is accessible using your own domain

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Please wait atleast 15-20mnts after you update the DNS record to verify the domain.

  • Navigate instance details page and click open console to access your website

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