Create sites

1. In the upper-left corner of the page, expand the selector and click Manage sites link.
   The Sites page appears. There you can see the current site you are using and managing.
2. Click Create a site button in the toolbar.
   The Create a site page appears.
3. In Name, enter the name of your new site.
   For example, it can be a regional site, such as My site – Germany.
4. Choose the protocol from the dropdown box.
5. Enter the domain of the site.
   For example, you can have different domains for different sites, such as www.mysite.de and www.mysite.pl or you can have sites as subfolders of another site, such as www.mysite.com/de and www.misite.com/pl. You can also have nested folders such as www.mysite.com/support/de.
6. If you select This site is in process of development checkbox, you can enter a domain dedicated for testing purposes only.
7. If you want to start creating your site from scratch, select Create empty site.
8. If you want to setup a site based on an existing one, select Duplicate pages and settings from existing site... checkbox and choose the site that you want to use from the dropdown box.
   Your new site will have the same pages, page templates, widgets, widget configurations and widget templates. Content is not copied or shared. You start to create new content for each site. You can choose which module to activate on Step 14.
   IMPORTANT: When you duplicate pages and settings from an existing site, the new site must have the same languages as in the site that you are copying. The default language must also be the same. Later, you can add and remove languages.
9. If you want your site to use more than one frontend languages, click Add languages…, select the checkboxes of the desired languages, and click Done selecting.
   For more information, see Multiple site management in multilingual mode.
10. If you want to develop your site offline, select This site is in offline mode checkbox.
    Depending whether your site is online or offline, the following icons are displayed in the grid:
    •  (Online)
    •  (Offline)
11. You can add additional domain aliases if you expand Advanced and enter them in Domain aliases paragraph box.
12. You can set a page for public user login, by expanding Advanced and performing one of the following:
    
    • To select a page from the site, select Select a page…, click Select a page button, select a page from the list and click Done.
    • To manually enter the URL of the public login page, select Enter URL and enter an URL that must be of the same domain.
13. Click Continue.
    A list of modules appears.
14. Select the checkboxes of the modules that you want to be available in the new site.
    

    NOTE: If you have deactivated or deleted a module in the Modules & Services management section, it does not appear as a checkbox and you cannot select it.
    For more information, see Activate and deactivate modules.

15. For each selected module, choose the data source by clicking Change link, selecting one or more sources, and clicking Done.
    You can also choose which the default source for the new site is.
    By default, the site uses data, created with its own modules. For example, My site uses news created using its own news module. However, you can choose to use new created for another of your sites.
    

    NOTE: If you do not activate Libraries module, you cannot manage images, videos, documents, and other files.

    NOTE: If you create a module with the module builder after you create a site, it is not automatically activated for this site. If you want to use it, you must manually activate it.

16. Click Create this site.
    The site is created and appears in the grid on Sites page.

When you create pages, content items, products, or classifications, you can choose in which site you want to work. You can do this by using the dropdown selector to the upper-left corner of the page. The dropdown selector also displays in which site you are currently working.