Although each School Loop site comes with its own unique address, we highly recommend that you point your existing domain name(s) to your School Loop sites. Instead of surfing to an address such as http://abc-xyz-ca.schoolloop.com, use http://www.district.com. District employees, students, parents and your community already know your web address; why make them learn another?
DNS Pointing
For those that wish to point their web addresses to their School Loop hosted websites, we support the use of CNAME records. School Loop also supports up to three different domain names per site.
To use your own web address, follow these two simple steps:
1. Create a CNAME record for each district or school address and point all of them to cms-host.schoolloop.com.
2. Send School Loop a list of the domains used so that our servers can direct incoming traffic to the appropriate server.
Please note that each site must have its own domain or sub domain address. We cannot support an address such as http://www.district.com/school.
For example:
If the district domain is www.district.k12.ca.us
The subdomain for a school might be school.district.k12.ca.us
Note: If you need help with creating a CNAME Record, please contact your domain name registrar (e.g. Go Daddy or Network Solutions) for support. Keep in mind that changes to DNS records can take up to 48 hours to take effect.
Recommendations
1. Where a district has both a state domain name (e.g. xyz.k12.ca.us) and a privately purchased domain name (e.g. www.district.net), create CNAME records for both domains.
2. Create subdomains for each school in the district using all of your domains. For each subdomain, create a CNAME record.
3. Where individual schools have purchased their own domain names, create CNAME records for those in addition to the subdomains owned by the district.
4. The use of a district domain for your School Loop site may be required for E-Rate eligibility.
