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How Sites Are Recognized
Software can send a site as a full address (https://www.example.com/shop) or as a
host name (shop.example.com). PaddleSubs turns it into the site the seat is for, in one
of two ways, chosen by the product's Subdomains share the seat setting:
- Yes (the default)
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A site is its registrable domain:
www.example.com,shop.example.comandstaging.example.comall use the one seat forexample.com. PaddleSubs uses the Public Suffix List to find it, soshop.example.co.ukisexample.co.uk, while two customers' sites on a shared hosting address, such asa.herokuapp.comandb.herokuapp.com, stay separate. - No
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Every host name is a separate site, except that a leading
www.is ignored:example.comandwww.example.comare one site,shop.example.comis another.
Development sites are recognized separately:
localhost, IP addresses, single names such as a computer's name, and names ending in
.local, .test, .example,
.invalid, .internal, .lan,
.localdomain or .home.arpa. The product's
Development sites setting either lets them activate without using a seat (the
default), or refuses them.
A site is active on at most one license of a product at a time. If example.com is
bound to one customer's license, another customer can't activate it for the same product until it is
released.