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Onboarding a website

Before WAAP can protect anything you must onboard a website: tell WAAP the domain and its origin, provision TLS, pick security features, then switch the domain's DNS to route through the edge.

The onboarding wizard​

Open Onboarding (or Onboarding Domain Now / Add Website from the Websites page). It's a four-step wizard: Resume/Restart → Domain & Origin → SSL → Security Features.

Onboarding — Domain & Origin

  1. Resume/Restart — continue a previous onboarding or start fresh.
  2. Domain & Origin
    • Website Domain — the public hostname visitors use (e.g. example.com), without http:// or https://.
    • Origin Server — the scheme (https://) plus your origin IP or domain (IPv6 not supported). This is where WAAP forwards clean traffic.
    • You can change these later under Websites.
  3. SSL — provision or upload the TLS certificate WAAP terminates at the edge.
  4. Security Features — choose the protection to switch on for the site (subject to your plan).

Finish the wizard, then point the domain's DNS at the edge (a CNAME/target shown by the console) so traffic flows through WAAP.

Websites​

The Websites page lists every onboarded site — Domain, Alternate Domain Names, Service ID, Create Time and per-row Operation buttons.

Websites list

  • Add Website (top right) or Onboarding Domain Now launches the wizard; Filter by domain searches the list.
  • Each row has:
    • Configure → the website's configuration (origin, access control, caching, TLS, headers, purge, prefetch).
    • Remove Security — stop protecting the site without deleting it.
    • Delete — remove the website from WAAP.