While it's not required, you should thoroughly test your website or app on the ​Akamai​ edge network. By testing, you can make sure that all existing content functionality is preserved. Specifically, you should be testing your Ion property as it's delivering your content.

• If you've set anything incorrectly, you could break various functions on your site or application.

• Ion should increase the performance and availability of your content. By testing, you set a baseline for increased performance, which may let you improve your site delivery even more.

Before you begin

Push HTTPS custom certificates to staging

Activate on staging

To perform actual testing of your Ion property, you need to activate it on the staging network in ​Akamai Control Center​.

1. If necessary, access the target property on ​Akamai Control Center​:

   1. Use the drop-down in the top right to select the ​Control Center​ account you used to create the property.

   3. Enter the name of your property in the Filter by Property or Hostname field.

   4. Click the Property Name to open it.

2. Click the Version <#> for the property you want to activate.

3. Click the Activate tab. The Activate window opens.

4. Click Activate v<#> on Staging. The Staging Network Activation window opens. Set these options:

   • Fast Activation. To speed up activation, make sure this is set to On.

   • Validation Messages. Error, warning, and information messages are carried over. If you still have any error messages (), you need to correct these. Click Cancel at the bottom of the window, then select the Edit tab. Click the <#> Errors <#> Warnings <#> Notes tab at the bottom of the page. Review each Error message and resolve the issue. Click Save and then click the Activate tab to come back to this process.

   • Override block of hostname moves. ​Akamai​ applies a temporary block on a hostname that's been moved, in order to check its validity. Enabling this skips this temporary block. For example, this would apply if you've just moved your property from another account. Note that this can increase the number of hits to your origin server.

   • Notes. You can include a description of this version's activation.

   • Notify via email. This defaults to the email address set for the active ​Control Center​ user. You can change it or add more. Separate multiple addresses with a comma (",").

5. Click Activating v<#> on Staging.

6. With Fast Activation, your property should be ready in the Estimated Activation Time listed. This can be as quick as three minutes. Now, you can:

   • Monitor the Activate tab to track progress.

   • Click Activation Details to review settings and information regarding the Property.

   • Wait for the confirmation email. Any email set in Notify via email will get an email when the activation is complete.

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These are just the basics

To learn more about activation on ​Akamai​ networks, check out How activation works.