What are some things to be aware of when launching BigCommerce on Layer0?
DNS set up with BigCommerce can be a bit tricky because of the options they provide.
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If migrating to BigCommerce from another host, you will need to point the DNS for the Apex and WWW domains at BigCommerce.
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BigCommerce allows a setting “Redirect WWW to no WWW” under the Store settings > Search Engine Optimization. You must set this to avoid the site varying between the www and non-www, which can cause a myriad of issues.
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BigCommerce will allow you to CNAME the Apex domain. Do not do this.
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We recommend that you use long SEO optimized URLs for your Product and Category URLs in order to be able to match URLs more easily in Layer0.
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Apex domains should be set up with an A record.
An example DNS entry record is available below
