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by Devon Hahn Published 2 years ago Updated 2 years ago
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Go to Setup, type Sites in the Quick Find box, then select Sites. Register a custom Salesforce Sites domain for your organization. In the next step, create the site and configure it.

Setting Up Salesforce Sites
  1. From Setup, enter Sites in the Quick Find box, then select Sites.
  2. Register the Salesforce Sites domain for your organization.
  3. Create and configure your site.
  4. Develop and use Visualforce pages for your site, use or hide standard pages, and customize or replace out-of-box error pages.

Full Answer

How do I create a website in Salesforce?

Register the Salesforce Sites domain for your organization. Create and configure your site. Develop and use Visualforce pages for your site, use or hide standard pages, and customize or replace out-of-box error pages. Associate these pages with your site.

How do I enable and use Salesforce sites?

Enable Salesforce Sites and create public websites and applications that are directly integrated with your Salesforce organization—without requiring users to log in with a username and password. From Setup, enter Sites in the Quick Find box, then select Sites. Register the Salesforce Sites domain for your organization.

How do I redirect a custom domain to Salesforce sites?

Create CNAME records to redirect your custom domain and subdomains to your Salesforce Sites domain without exposing the secure.force.com or salesforce-sites.com name in the URL. It can take up to 48 hours for your Salesforce Sites domain to become available on the Internet. Custom domains aren't supported for Developer Edition organizations.

When will my Salesforce sites domain be available on the Internet?

It can take up to 48 hours for your Salesforce Sites domain to become available on the Internet. Custom domains aren't supported for Developer Edition organizations. CNAME records must include your domain name, your 18–character organization ID, and the suffix live.siteforce.com.

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Can I host my website on Salesforce?

Salesforce Sites enables you to create public websites and applications that are directly integrated with your Salesforce organization—without requiring users to log in with a username and password.

How do I change the site type in Salesforce?

After registering your Salesforce Sites domain, create a Salesforce Site.From Setup, enter Sites in the Quick Find box, and select Sites.Click New, or click Edit to modify an existing site.Click Save.

How do I make my website active in Salesforce?

To make the URL active and enable login access for members, publish the site....To activate a site:From Setup, enter Digital Experiences in the global search box. Select Sites.Open Experience Workspaces or Experience Management.Click Administration | Administration.Click Activate.Click OK.

How do I change the default Web address in Salesforce?

Edit the domain name, HTTPS service option, and certificate—Click Edit in the Domain Detail section. Delete the domain—Click Delete in the Domain Detail section. Activate pending changes to the domain—Click Activate, if available, in the Domain Detail section. Add a custom URL—Click New Custom URL.

How do I create a custom website in Salesforce?

Setting Up Salesforce SitesFrom Setup, enter Sites in the Quick Find box, then select Sites.Register the Salesforce Sites domain for your organization.Create and configure your site.Develop and use Visualforce pages for your site, use or hide standard pages, and customize or replace out-of-box error pages.More items...

What is site URL redirects Salesforce?

Required Editions and User Permissions. If you move or reorganize pages on your Salesforce Site, search engines may have trouble finding the new page locations. To avoid this, set up site URL redirects to inform users and search engines that site content has moved.

How do I deploy a Salesforce site?

Manually create the new site in the target org with the same parameters (domain, name, template). Use metadata to deploy the network and custom Site metadata types into the target org. Use metadata to extract the siteDotCom metadata type, or use the Site.com Export This Site option from your source org.

How do I publish my Salesforce site?

You can publish your entire site or just specific items.Click Publish Changes....To publish: All recent changes, ensure Site-wide changes is selected. ... Click Next and then review the list of items to be published.Click Next and then add a publishing note, if required. ... Click Publish.

Are Salesforce Sites free?

Salesforce Site Usage and Limits At present, force.com Site service is included in the following Editions or Organizations: Enterprise Edition, Unlimited Edition, Developer Edition, and Force.com Free Edition Services.

How do I whitelist a URL in Salesforce?

Use the following steps to whitelist Whatfix domains on Salesforce,Log in to your Salesforce account.Click the Settings icon, and then click Setup.In the left pane, click Security.Click CSP Trusted Sites.Click the New Trusted Site button.In the Trusted Site Name field, enter a name for the site.

How do I enable enhanced domain in Salesforce?

Review the Considerations for Enhanced Domains before you enable enhanced domains.From Setup, in the Quick Find box, enter My Domain , and then select My Domain.Under My Domain Details, select Edit.If more suffixes are available for your org's My Domain, a suffix dropdown list appears. ... Select Use enhanced domains.More items...

What is site com Salesforce?

Site.com is a web content management system (CMS) that makes it easy to build dynamic, data-driven web pages quickly, edit content in real time, and manage your websites.

Creating a Salesforce site

Creating a salesforce site is not complex at all. We can do it in a breeze with a few simple steps. These steps are listed below,

Configuring Salesforce sites

Once the salesforce site is set up, we can configure it further by tweaking the settings. This could be the security settings, or it could be the page settings. If you are an experienced developer, you can just play around with them. To configure, we will go to the Sites page, and select the desired which we have already created.

How to create a Salesforce site?

To set up a Salesforce Site: 1 From Setup, enter Sites in the Quick Find box, then select Sites. 2 Register a custom Salesforce Sites domain for your organization. 3 Create and configure your site. 4 Develop and use Visualforce pages for your site, use or hide standard pages, and customize or replace out-of-box error pages. Associate these pages with your site. 5 Choose a site template. Use the lookup field to find a template that you’ve developed, or use the provided template. The site template provides the page layout and stylesheet for your site and overrides any formatting inherited from the associated portal. 6 Enable a portal for login or self-registration, then associate it with your site. 7 Optionally, modify public access settings. 8 When you are ready to make your site public, click Activate on the Site Details page. You can also activate your site from the Site Edit and Sites pages.

How to make a website public?

Optionally, modify public access settings. When you are ready to make your site public, click Activate on the Site Details page. You can also activate your site from the Site Edit and Sites pages.

Enable Salesforce Sites with a Domain Name

Enable Sites by claiming a domain name for your organization's Sites presence.

Create a Custom robots.txt File

The robots.txt file uses include and exclude rules to inform web spiders and robots about which areas of your site to index. You can create a Visualforce page to host the information. Search engines will use the file to index your site pages.

What is Salesforce site?

Salesforce Sites enables you to create public websites and applications that are directly integrated with your Salesforce organization— without requiring users to log in with a username and password. You can publicly expose any information stored in your organization through a branded URL of your choice.

How to determine the URL of a Salesforce site?

The Salesforce Sites Domain. For each of your sites, you determine the URL of the site by establishing the site's domain name. You can choose one of the following domain options. Use your Salesforce Sites domain. With this option, your Salesforce Sites domain name is used for all the sites that you create.

What is Salesforce information?

Salesforce organizations contain valuable information about partners, solutions, products, users, ideas, and other business data. Some of this information would be useful to people outside your organization, but only users with the right access and permissions can view and use it.

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