Multi-site hosting
One account, many named sites, each with its own memorable URL, managed from the Settings panel, including taking one off the web and putting it back.
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One 3dCMS account can host several named sites side by side: a portfolio, a showroom, and a one-off launch page, all from the same editor. Manage them in Settings ▸ Sites.
Your handle and your URLs
Your handle is the personal part of every publish URL:
https://3dcms.info/<handle>/sites/<slug>/Set it on your Account page. It's editable until your first publish, then locked, so links you've already shared never break.
Every site lives at its own handle URL
There's no longer a site that gets the bare domain. 3dcms.info/ is the 3dCMS home page (and the editor once you're signed in), so no scene is special and every site (including the one marked primary) is reached at its own handle-scoped URL above.
The primary flag is now only about legacy links: the old bare-domain page URLs, /3d/<page> and /text/<page>, permanently redirect (301) to the primary site's real handle URL, so anything already crawled or shared keeps working. It's a deployment-level setting, not part of the everyday publishing flow.
Want a scene shown off? That's featuring now: it changes placement on Explore, and moves no URLs at all.
The active site
Publishing always targets the active site. In the Sites list, each row has:
- Edit / Editing: make this the active (publish-target) site.
- Primary: the legacy-URL target described above. Deployment-level, so it's not something a normal account sets.
- Take down / Put back online: stop serving the site, and start serving it again. Reversible, and covered below.
- Delete forever: the permanent one. It only appears on a site that has already been taken down.
Taking a site off the web
Take down does what it says and nothing more. The public pages stop resolving, the site drops off Explore and your creator profile, and the prerendered HTML is swept so nothing keeps answering from disk. Nothing is deleted: the published site, its scene and its assets all stay in your account, and Put back online rebuilds the pages from them. It survives restarts and deploys, so a site you took down stays down until you say otherwise.
Publishing to a site that is down is refused, with a message saying to put it back online first. Publishing used to quietly put the site back on the internet, and ping the search engines about it, while your Account page still offered Put back online as though nothing had happened. Returning to the web is now always the deliberate one-click act, never a side effect of saving your work.
Take down used to be the delete button wearing a milder label. It isn't any more. Deleting is a separate Delete forever button that appears only once a site is already down, so anyone reaching for the permanent action meets the reversible one on the way and usually finds that was all they wanted. There's a confirmation on the way down and none on the way back, because confirming a reversible action only teaches you to click through dialogs.
The primary site is the exception: it backs the legacy bare-domain URLs, so its Take down button is disabled.
| State | Opens from a link | Listed on Explore | Reversible |
|---|---|---|---|
| Live and listed | Yes | Yes | |
| Unlisted | Yes | No | Yes |
| Taken down | No | No | Yes, one click |
| Deleted | No | No | No |
Unlisted and taken down are independent settings rather than two strengths of one. Unlisted hides a site from the gallery while anyone holding the link keeps reading it; taken down refuses everyone. Put a site back and it returns with whatever listing state it had.
Creating a new site
Under "Add a new site," enter a Slug (lowercase letters, digits, hyphens) and a Display name, pick a starter template, and click Create site. 3dCMS seeds it from the template and publishes it right away, so there's something live immediately.