In our previous blog post, we introduced our new optional “Custom Branding” addon.
This allows you to re-brand (white label) a MIDAS booking system, removing any references to “MIDAS” and replacing them with your own name and logo.
The “Custom Branding” addon is available to both self-hosted and cloud-hosted customers.
Now, for cloud-hosted customers, if you want to remove references to “MIDAS” from your booking system, you’ll still have the “mid.as” reference in the actual URL for your MIDAS system (i.e. “example.mid.as”).
Our new companion “Domain Alias” addon solves this issue!
It allows you to setup access to cloud hosted MIDAS system via another domain instead. – for instance a sub-domain of your organization’s own website domain.
So for example, if your hosted MIDAS domain was “example.mid.as”, and your organization’s own domain was “example.com”, you could use the optional Domain Alias addon and set say “bookings.example.com” to use as the URL for your hosted MIDAS system instead.
Domain Alias Addon for MIDAS
Setting up a domain alias is a simple 3-step process:
Enter the domain/sub-domain you wish to “alias” to your hosted MIDAS system.
Make a small DNS change on your organization’s domain using the information provided in the addon
Confirm that you’ve made your DNS change
Once your changes become active, you’ll be able to access your hosted MIDAS system via your chosen domain alias.
For more information about this optional addon for cloud-hosted customers, please visit: https://mid.as/domain-alias
At the start of this year (2016) we began providing this to all new customers who chose a cloud hosted edition of MIDAS.
Let’s assume that your company was called “My Organization”. If you subscribed to a cloud-hosted edition of MIDAS in 2016, you would have been able to choose the dedicated MIDAS subdomain https://my-organization.mid.as for your hosted booking system.
However, if you purchased a cloud-hosted MIDAS system prior to 2016, you’d instead have been accessing your system via https://mid.as/my-organization.
This was before dedicated mid.as subdomains were available.
Subdomains for all hosted customers
The good news is that from today, we’ve now rolled out dedicated mid.as subdomains to all our hosted customers who purchased prior to 2016 as well!
So, if you previously accessed your hosted MIDAS system via https://mid.as/my-organization, you’ll now have the dedicated subdomain https://my-organization.mid.as. Old mid.as/my-organization URL’s will continue to work and redirect to my-organization.mid.as for some time.
If you purchased a cloud-hosted MIDAS system prior to 2016, we’d like to encourage you to update your bookmarks and links. Going forward, they should now point to your new dedicated mid.as subdomain!
There are a few things to note when updating your bookmarks/links:
If your hosted MIDAS URL previously contained underscores (_), you’ll need to change these to hyphens (–) when updating your bookmarks and links. For example: https://mid.as/my_organization would now become https://my-organization.mid.as
If your hosted MIDAS URL previously contained a domain name (other than mid.as) i.e. .co.uk, .com, etc, you’ll need to remove the end part when updating your bookmarks and links. For example: https://mid.as/myorganization.com would now become https://myorganization.mid.as
If your hosted MIDAS URL previously contained any period characters (.) (other than the initial period in the primary “mid.as” domain), you’ll need to remove these when updating your bookmarks and links. For example: https://mid.as/my.organization would now become https://myorganization.mid.as
If you have any questions, or aren’t sure what the new dedicated subdomain for your hosted MIDAS system is, please don’t hesitate to contact us. Our team will be more than happy to help!
