{"id":412,"date":"2025-02-04T09:15:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T09:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2025\/02\/04\/10506149-hostinger-horizons-how-to-publish-your-app\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T13:26:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T13:26:33","slug":"10506149-hostinger-horizons-how-to-publish-your-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/10506149-hostinger-horizons-how-to-publish-your-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Hostinger Horizons: Publishing your website to make it live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you first create a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/horizons\">Hostinger Horizons<\/a> project, it&rsquo;s assigned a temporary domain and set up as a private draft until it is published for the first time. Attempting to access an unpublished Hostinger Horizons website may result in 404 or SSL protocol errors.<\/p><h2 id=\"h-how-to-publish-your-hostinger-horizons-website\">How to publish your Hostinger Horizons website<\/h2><p>To make your website public for the first time, follow these steps:<\/p><ol>\n<li>Open the Hostinger Horizons editor.\n<ol>\n<li>Go to hPanel &rarr; <a href=\"https:\/\/hpanel.hostinger.com\/websites\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Websites<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Locate your website and click <strong>Edit website<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Click the <strong>Publish<\/strong> button in the top-right corner.<br>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10029\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/04\/hostinger-horizons-publish-website.png\" alt=\"Hostinger Horizons editor with the Publish button highlighted in the top-right menu\" width=\"703\" height=\"127\" data-media-id=\"10029\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/04\/hostinger-horizons-publish-website.png 874w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/04\/hostinger-horizons-publish-website-300x54.png 300w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/04\/hostinger-horizons-publish-website-768x139.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 703px) 100vw, 703px\" \/>\n<ol>\n<li>The Publish button is disabled while the website is being created. In that case, wait for the loading process to complete before publishing.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\">\n<h2 id=\"h-update-your-website\" class=\"no-margin\">Update your website<\/h2>\n<\/div><div>You can edit your website at any time after it is live. To apply new changes to the live version, click the&nbsp;<strong>Publish<\/strong> button. If a dropdown appears, select <strong>Publish changes<\/strong>. Wait a few minutes, and check your website in an incognito or private window to verify the applied changes.<\/div><div>\n<p>When you click <strong>Publish<\/strong>, the editor displays a loading percentage indicator showing the progress of the publish process. You can see this in both the top-right button and the publish dropdown.<\/p>\n<p>Once publishing completes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A completion sound plays to confirm the site is live.<\/li>\n<li>The publish dropdown shows two quick actions:\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Copy URL<\/strong> &mdash; copies the live site address to your clipboard.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Go to Analytics<\/strong> &mdash; opens the built-in Analytics section directly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\">\n<h2 id=\"h-troubleshooting\">Troubleshooting<\/h2>\n<p>If your website remains unreachable several hours after you publish it, check the following factors to identify the cause:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Temporary domain<\/strong>: If you are using a temporary domain, clear your browser cache or open the site in an incognito window to access the latest version.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Custom domain<\/strong>: Verify that your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/10672797-hostinger-horizons-how-to-connect-a-domain\/\">custom domain<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/10673027-hostinger-horizons-how-to-connect-a-subdomain\/\">subdomain<\/a> is connected. The website should appear in your Websites list under the custom domain name rather than a temporary one.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Domain pointing<\/strong>: Ensure your domain or subdomain is correctly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/how-to-point-a-domain-to-hostinger-horizons\/\">pointing<\/a> to to your Horizons website.<\/li>\n<li><strong> DNS propagation<\/strong>: If you recently updated your DNS records, wait for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/4146975-what-is-dns-propagation-at-hostinger\/\">propagation<\/a> to complete. This process can take up to 24 hours globally.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Local caching<\/strong>. Clear your browser cache or test the website on a different device and connection, such as a phone using mobile data instead of a computer on Wi-Fi.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">For a quick guide on deploying your Horizons website, check this video tutorial.<\/p><div class=\"intercom-h2b-video\">\n<p><iframe title=\"How to Deploy Your Web App with Hostinger Horizons\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wlJhak93tZE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Make your Hostinger Horizons web app visible to visitors and update after launch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[293],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hostinger-horizons"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/10506149-hostinger-horizons-how-to-publish-your-app\/","default":1}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11480,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions\/11480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}