In evenito you can use your own website domains. You can choose between using a wildcard or individual (sub)domains.
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To be able to use a website domain in evenito, you must first secure this domain and store it in your DNS settings.
After that, you store the domain in your evenito space and then complete the final verification in your internal DNS settings.
To do this, you need access to both the DNS settings and to evenito.
Choose the right domain configuration for the event website
Domain with wildcard (*)
This option allows you to use a main domain for any number of subdomains.
This means that you can use a wildcard domain such as *.events.COMPANYNAME.com to create subdomains such as this.events.COMPANYNAME.com and that.events.COMPANYNAME.com without having to create additional DNS entries.
The wildcard is the * at this point and serves as a placeholder for URLs that you can define as you want. This gives you great flexibility and allows you to use new subdomains for different event websites at any time without having to change the DNS configuration again.
This means you can use your wildcard domain for a variety of event websites with just a single verification, which makes it particularly practical.
To configure the domain with a wildcard, add it to your DNS settings and refer to our CNAME evenito.site.
Please note:
With a CNAME entry, you can also redirect a specific domain to evenito.site without a wildcard (*).
This means that you can only direct a specific URL to evenito.site, e.g. digital-summit.events.COMPANYNAME.com. But this means that you or your IT will have to redirect the domain for each event website to our CNAME evenito.site.
This restricts reusability, as only one website per (sub)domain can be active at a time.
Setup of a main domain
If you would like to assign a domain to a specific website, you can proceed as follows:
Please secure your desired (sub)domain first. Then add an A-record for e.g. MAINDOMAIN.com to your DNS settings, which points to the following evenito IP: 34.65.78.110
Tip:
We recommend using a wildcard domain as it offers you more flexibility and reusability. With a wildcard, you can set up and use as many subdomains as you like without having to adjust the DNS settings, which makes the process much easier and faster for you.
Step-by-step instruction for verifying a domain in evenito
Step 1: Save and define the domain type:
First decide which domain name you want to use and whether it should be verified as a domain with wildcard (*) or as a single (sub)domain.
Step 2: Configure DNS settings:
Open your DNS settings and enter either a CNAME or an A-record for the domain. You can find the descriptions in this section.
Please note:
The (sub)domain must first be secured by you and must not contain any content or be a subpage/extension of an existing website.
Please note that the DNS settings may vary from provider to provider.
Step 3: Checking the DNS configuration
Check CNAME:
Open your command line system (for Mac) by entering "Terminal" in the search and try to ping your URL by using "test" as an alternative to the wildcard (*). For example: ping test.events.COMPANYNAME.com.
If the response is pinging evenito.site, the domain was correctly redirected with the wildcard to the CNAME evenito.site.
Similarly, you can also check whether, for example, only a specific URL was redirected to the CNAME. To do this, ping the final event website URL you have defined.
If the answer is Unknown host, please check your DNS settings again.
Alternatively, you can also open the external page MxToolbox and enter your domain to check.
Check A-Record:
The A-record of your domain (e.g. events.COMPANYNAME.com) must point to our IP address 34.65.78.110.
To check this, open the MxToolbox website and enter your domain, select DNS lookup and start the search. In the results, the A-record should point to the IP address 34.65.78.110. A correctly set A record looks like this, for example: A Record: events.COMPANYNAME.com -> 34.65.78.110
If the A record is not correct, please check your DNS settings and make sure that the correct IP address is entered.
Step 4: Store domain in evenito
Once you have checked the DNS settings, log in to evenito. You will need access to evenito for this. If you do not have access yourself, an admin who has the necessary authorisations can provide you with the required TXT entry in evenito. Otherwise, please contact our CS Team.
First click on the gear wheel at the top right and select the "Resources" tab under "General settings".
In the "Domains" section, you can enter your website domain in the "Add entry" field. Then click on the tick to the left of the domain to display the required DNS TXT entry and save it in the DNS settings of your domain.
Go back to evenito and confirm the setup by clicking on "Submit". A small dot to the right of the domain then indicates that the setup was successful.
Please note:
As soon as the domain has been successfully verified, the first event website can be published.
In this article, we explain how you can now create a website and go live.
If you have already set up a website and just want to adjust the domain in the website settings, proceed as described in this article.
Special case (www. in front of the website)
If you also want to use the www version of the domain, set up a redirect from www.MAINDOMAIN.com to MAINDOMAIN.com.
If this is not possible in your internal DNS settings, please publish the website without www first.
Make sure that both versions (www and without www) are configured correctly and point to the CNAME evenito.site or the IP 34.65.78.110.
Then create a second website without content and add the following meta redirect to the code header in the Basic setup of the website:
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; URL=https://MAINDOMAIN.com" />
Adjust the URL https://MAINDOMAIN.com according to your published website, save the changes and also publish this second website.
This ensures that both domains point to the same website, whereby the website is only accessed via the redirected URL.