Hosting your site
Thanks to Netlify Team for their awesome platform, you can host your site and get a working URL in seconds. Plus custom domain settings and everything you need to keep your site live and running.
With Gridbox, you can host your site to Netlify in a click along with custom domain + free ssl (https) for free.
Open the site you've created.
- 1.From the top right bar - Click on the publish button
- 2.It will open the dialog with "Login with Netlify" button.
- 3.Login to Netlify Account if you've one or create a new account. [This step needed is only for the first time ]
- 4.Once connected, you can see - "Ready to host your website. Please click on publish to proceed"
- 5.Click on publish
- 6.That's it. You will see the auto generated hosted url.
- 1.From the top right bar - Click on the publish button
- 2.It will open the dialog
- 3.Click on publish changes
- 4.That's it.
If you would like to continue with the default netlify url, still you can rename the url.
For eg:
random-site-32s4.netlify.app -> your_name.netlify.app
- 1.Click on edit.
- 2.Enter the name you want to rename to
- 3.That's it.
Renaming the site
To add custom domain
- 1.Click on the custom domain button
- 2.This will take you to Netlify Custom Domain Settings
- 1.Follow the instructions given in the screen
- 2.Create a CNAME record www -> sometitle.netlify.app
- 3.You will see the default Netlify Generatated Subdomain (for eg: https://somesite.netlify.app)
- 4.To add custom domain -> Click on Add custom domain button
- 5.Then add your domain and click on verify to proceed further
Once you're done, allow up to 1 hr for the changes to take effect.
Domain Verification
Last modified 7mo ago