What is it?

Plan✕ is hosted at planx.uk. So by default the link to your services will be something like:

https://editor.planx.uk/council/service_name/published

It is likely that instead, you’ll want to use your own ‘subdomain’ name, such a

https://planningservices.council.gov.uk/service_name

You can create a different subdomain if you wish, but we recommend planningservices so the links are standardised from council to council.

Why it matters?

So users get a consistent seamless experience navigating from your council web pages, and feel confident that they are sending their data to you.

How it works

Plan✕ is hosted entirely on AWS. For serving the static content, we’re using AWS CloudFront.

What you’ll need

We’ll need a SSL certificate that’s valid for your council’s domain. We’ll need the Certificate Body, the Certificate Private Key, and the Certificate Chain in base64/ascii encoding*.

Your IT team should be able to provide this. Just share the link to this page with them.

• If you send them in binary we might be able to convert it ourselves.

Choose one of these options:

1. You can send us a certificate that’s specific to the chosen subdomain or a wildcard of it
2. We can provide a CSR (Certificate Signing Request) — just let us know what you’d like us to put in each of the fields

AWS CloudFront does not accept self-certified certificates.

Once we receive the certificate, we’ll add it to our infrastructure and get back to you with a URL (ie CNAME) for you to point the DNS Record (ie domain) to. It’ll look like this: