The SXA site definition fields

Site Name

name

The name of the site. When you choose a name for the website, you must avoid using characters that are invalid for the website cookies. Therefore, do not use control characters, spaces (" "), semicolons, or commas in your website names.

Valid for environment

Defines the environment that the site is resolved for. Allowed values are empty string, *, or an environment name without blank spaces. You must define the environment name that this field refers to in your config file.

Target Hostname

targetHostName

Specifies the host name used while generating links and sitemaps.

Host Name

hostName

Defines the host name that the site resolves to.

Virtual Folder

virtualFolder

Use this field to resolve sites with the same host name but located in a different virtual folder.

Start Item

startItem

Defines the path to the root item of the site.

Database

database

Defines the database containing the items that Sitecore uses for rendering the site for visitors.

Domain

domain

Defines the Sitecore security domain of the site.

Link Provider name

Defines the link provider. With SXA, you can select a different link provider for different sites. This can be useful when you have multiple sites that all have different link requirements.

Linkable Site

Select to make a site linkable.

Other Properties

Place for additional attributes for SXA sites that you would normally have in your site definitions config file.

Sitecore or Sitecore modules might require other properties that were not explicitly specified in the Site Grouping node. You can configure these properties in the Other Properties field by specifying the key/value pair. These properties are then sent verbatim to Sitecore site provider.

For example, SXA does not have a port property that lets you specify which port your site is exposed under.

Another example: in an older version of SXA to enable language fallback for a site, you could add enableItemLanguageFallback and enableFieldLanguageFallback and set them to true.

Language

language

The default content language for the site.

Language Embedding

languageEmbedding

Select to show the language in the URL.

Enable item language fallback

enableItemLanguageFallback

Select to enable item-level language fallback. For more information on enabling item-level language fallback, see Enable and set up language fallback, and scroll to the section about item-level fallback. Item-level language fallback is deselected by default.

Enable field language fallback

enableFieldLanguageFallback

Select to enable field-level language fallback. For more information on enabling field-level language fallback, see Enable and set up language fallback, and scroll to the section about field-level language fallback. Field-level language fallback is deselected by default.

Allow Debug

allowDebug

Controls whether presentation components collect profile and trace information, affecting whether the debugger renders information about those controls, and whether to show tracing and profiling commands in the debugging ribbon.

Cache Html

cacheHtml

Select to enable caching for your site.

Enable Preview

enablePreview

Select to enable preview on the site.

Enable Web Edit

enableWebEdit

Select to enable WebEdit mode for the site.

Enable Debugger

enableDebugger

Enable or disable debugging features, including tracing, profiling, and rendering information, and the debugging ribbon.

Disable Client Data

disableClientData

Select to disable storage required for CMS user interfaces for the site.

Disable Browser Caching

disableBrowserCaching

Set to Yes to disable browser caching for the site. Set to Default to have the value of the DisableBrowserCaching setting in the <settings> section determine browser caching for the site.

Login Page

loginpage

Use this field to assign a custom SXA login page.

Require Login

requireLogin

Select to require users to log in to enter the site.

Html Cache Size (in MB)

htmlCacheSize

The maximum size of the html cache.

Registry Cache Size (in MB)

registry

The registry cache size for the site.

View State Cache Size (in MB)

CacheViewState

The view state cache size for the site.

Xsl Cache Size (in MB)

xsl

The xsl renderings cache size for the site.

Filtered Items Cache Size (in MB)

filteredItemsCacheSize

The size of the cache used to store filtered items according to the filterItems attribute.

Indexes

Enter your index specifications for the site. Always start with the database followed by a slash. You can then specify the language or use an asterisk (*) to include all languages.

Scheme

scheme

The scheme that indicates the protocol type: http or https.

Port

port

The port number of the incoming URL.

Dictionary domain

dictionaryDomain

The default dictionary domain to use.

No publishable URL

noPublishableUrl

The URL of the page that handles errors if no publishable item or version of an item can be found.

No license URL

noLicenseUrl

The URL to redirect to if a license is missing.

No access URL

noAccessUrl

The URL to redirect to if access to an item is denied.

Link item not found

linkItemNotFoundUrl

The URL to redirect to if the linked item is not found.

URL Layout not found

layoutNotFoundUrl

The URL to redirect to if an item's layout is not found.

URL Item not found

itemNotFoundUrl

The URL to redirect to if an item is not found.

URL Error page URL

errorPageUrl

The URL to redirect to if a generic error occurs.