Using an Alternate Endpoint

This article is for Account Owners and Project Managers using the Global Delivery Network

Alternate endpoints in the Global Delivery Network (GDN) are used to specify an alternate source origin IP, or address, for the GDN to pull source content from. This setup is common if you are doing one of the following:

1. You're using a CDN and want to proxy the origin domain, rather than the cached site. 
2. You've created a site on your staging environment that does not resolve to a DNS (accessible through an IP address), and is behind a firewall.

Configuring an Alternate Endpoint

1. From your GDN project, click the Settings tab > Domains. 
2. Select the source domain and click the > arrow next to the localized domain you would like to configure, then select Edit localized domain.
3. Enter the origin domain or IP address in the Alternate Endpoint field. Click Save.

The localized domain URL will be sent as the host header, upstream to your alternate endpoint server.