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How to Set Up Your Server Side Tracking Container

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Setting Up Your Server Container

Creation Date: May 20, 2024
Created By: Patrick Kenney
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1. Click the container that says server to the right of it.
2. Click Admin
3. Click Container Settings
4. Click Set up your tagging server
5. Click manual provision tagging server
6. Click to copy the config id
7. Go to your FlexibleTracking account and click to track a new domain. 
Enter your root domain. DO NOT ENTER ANYTHING OTHER THAN YOUR ROOT DOMAIN. Do not add www or t or trk. here. Just flexibletracking.com like google.com, etc.
8. Past your server side container config id next.
9. Grab the GTM code of the WEB container you will be using with your server container.
10. Paste that value into the last field.
11. Click save
12. Scroll down and copy the System IP for your account.
13. Next visit your domain provider; NameCheap, GoDaddy, etc.
14. Create 2 A recors.
15. Point t.[yourdomain] and preview.t.[yourdomain] to the system ip address in yoru account.
16. Click here
17. It will look like this.
18. Click back and refresh the page. If you don't see resolves, wait 30 minutes, click edit and re-save the record to force a system ip check.
19. Once you have the green Resolves notice, click Deploy to push your account Live
20. Click Confirm to complete the process.
21. Once you have all green on your domains, you can test the preview link in Tag Manager.
22. Click here
23. Click here


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