Community on your domain

By default a community lives on a generic address. With a custom domain connected to your project, you can put it on your brand:

community.mysite.com

Prerequisites

• A domain that’s added and active in your workspace (Adding a custom domain), with its SSL certificate issued.
• The domain connected to the project that owns the community (Connecting to a project).
• The community activated on that project.

Note

If the domain was already active when you clicked Add community, Genesis claims community.<your-domain> automatically — check, it may already be done.

Attaching manually

1. Open Domains → your domain → Projects tab.
2. Find the project’s mapping row — it has a Community section showing the activation status.
3. Click Attach community subdomain. The default prefix is community; change it if you like (e.g. members, club).
4. Confirm. Genesis creates the address and wires it up — it may take a few minutes to go live globally.

Your community is now at community.mysite.com (HTTPS included — the domain’s certificate covers it).

Naming with multiple sites on one domain

If the project’s site itself sits on a subdomain (say ai.mycompany.com), the community default becomes community-ai.mycompany.com, so several projects’ communities can coexist on one domain without collisions.

Renaming and detaching

In the same Community section of the mapping row:

• Edit — change the prefix (e.g. community → members). The old address stops working, the new one takes over.
• Detach — remove the community from this domain. The community itself keeps running on its default address; nothing inside it is affected.

Prefixes are validated against your other subdomains — you can’t take a name your site already uses on that domain.

Notes

• A community can be attached to more than one of your domains — each attachment is managed on its own domain’s page.
• Disconnecting the site’s domain mapping detaches that domain’s community address automatically — the community keeps running regardless.
• Attach is disabled until the domain is fully active with an issued certificate — finish domain setup first.