{"id":1059,"date":"2026-04-28T19:18:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T19:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/creating-a-subdomain-in-scout\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T19:18:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T19:18:46","slug":"creating-a-subdomain-in-scout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/creating-a-subdomain-in-scout\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating a subdomain in Scout"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Subdomains (e.g. <code>staging.yourdomain.com<\/code>) are treated as independent sites in Scout and to create a subdomain, simply head to <strong>Sites<\/strong>, click <strong>Add a Site<\/strong> at the top-right and then select the <strong>Subdomain<\/strong> option. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Enter the first part of the domain (e.g. <code>staging<\/code>) in the first field and select the parent domain (e.g. <code>yourdomain.com<\/code>) from the drop down menu. If the parent domain isn&#8217;t shown, then select <strong>Other domain<\/strong> and you&#8217;ll be able to enter the parent domain manually. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"banner-tip\">\ud83d\udc49 If you&#8217;re creating a subdomain for <strong>staging<\/strong> purposes, consider using the <strong>Temporary Domain<\/strong> option instead (it&#8217;ll save you a lot of time!) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Subdomains (e.g. staging.yourdomain.com) are treated as independent sites in Scout and to create a subdomain, simply head to Sites, click Add a Site at the top-right and then select the Subdomain option. Enter the first part of the domain (e.g. staging) in the first field and select the parent domain&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-our-control-panel","category-domains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}