Vanity Domains

Vanity domain gives you the ability to set other domains to point to your account or channels. When you configure it correctly, users that visit your domain (ex. www.myexample.com), will actually see the live site of your channel (ex. mychannel-myaccount.unroole.com). Note that this is different than a redirection, users still sees your domain (ex. www.myexample.com) as the url and will never actually see the url of the subdomain for your channel (ex. mychannel-myaccount.unroole.com).

How To Setup

For more information, see Account.

Configuring easyDNS CNAME.

Configuring easyDNS CNAME.

Add vanity domain in unroole.

To configure a vanity domain you need to first setup a cname with your DNS provider. The steps to configure cname for different DNS provider varies, here we use easyDNS as an example.

1. In your easyDNS account, navigate to 'CNAME Records'.
2. Click on 'edit'.
3. Follow the given instruction on the 'Edit CNAME records' page.
4. After you are done configuring your DNS, navigate to and login to your unroole account.
5. Navigate to your accounts or channels list, and click the 'Edit' icon for the account or channel you want your url to points to.
6. Under the domain section, enter your url. This url is the url which you want it to points to your account or channel. So when user goes to this url, it will display the content of your unroole account or channel
7. You can add multiple url by clicking on 'Add another domain'
8. Click 'Submit' to complete.

Example Usage

Vanity Domain can be used for many purposed, for example you can use it for localizations. Let's say you want a bilingual site with English and French with English content at "www.myexample.com/en" and French content at "www.myexample.com/fr". Follow these steps:

• Create two channels, one for English and one for French, you can easily unify their looks and feel by using the same Template.
• Setup vanity domains to let "www.myexample.com/en" to point to the English channel, and "www.myexample.com/fr" to the French channel.
• Done, you now have a fully functional bilingual site.

You can also point multiple domains to a channel, for example you can add an additional domain "www.my-english-example.com" to point to the English channel.