Understanding Development Domains in Our Product
When developing and testing your website with our product, it’s important to understand how we handle the rendering of images and video assets. To ensure the security and integrity of your content, we restrict the rendering of these assets to only the domains that you have explicitly listed in your dashboard. This restriction helps prevent unauthorized use of your content across the web.
What Are Development Domains?
Development domains are URLs that you use while building, testing, or staging your website. These domains often differ from your production domain (the live website) and are typically used for testing purposes before changes are pushed to the live site.
Pre-Approved Development Domains
To streamline the development process, we have already pre-approved a list of commonly used development domains. These domains include popular testing environments, such as:
*.local
*.localhost
*.dev
*.localdev
*.development
*.staging
*.stage
*.test
localhost
127.0.0.1
Staging subdomains like staging.yoursite.com
Other commonly used in development workflows
You can use any of these pre-approved development domains without needing to take additional steps. If your website is being tested on any of these domains, our system will automatically allow the rendering of images and video assets.
Rendering Restrictions for Non-Listed Domains
However, for security reasons, any domains not listed in your dashboard or pre-approved as development domains will be restricted from rendering your images and video assets. This means that if you are working with a development domain outside of the pre-approved list, your content will not display correctly, and you might see broken images or missing video files.
Adding a New Development Domain
If you need to use a development domain that isn’t on our pre-approved list, you can easily get it added to your account. Simply contact our support team with the following information:
The development domain name you want to add.
Any additional context that might help us understand your request.
Once we receive your request, we will review it and, if everything checks out, we will whitelist the requested development domain, allowing it to render your content seamlessly.