Form hosting

Forms designed with Open Forms would typically be included on some CMS via the Javascript snippet. However, if this is not possible, forms can also be accessed through the UI portion of Open Forms.

This section of the documentation documents the various configuration aspects available to tweak this to your organization needs. It is assumed that open forms is deployed on a subdomain such as open-forms.gemeente.nl, but other approaches are also possible.

Organization configuration

Published forms are available via the URL https://open-forms.gemeente.nl/<form-slug>, which renders the form in a minimal skeleton. The look and feel of this skeleton can be modified by administrators, to some extent. See Layout and styling.

Configuration with CNAME DNS records

It’s possible to deploy Open Forms as a “SaaS” service - the service provider manages the installations of Open Forms on their own (internal) domain and organizations can use this.

Organizations can use CNAME DNS records to point https://open-forms.gemeente.nl to the internal host open-forms.gemeente.service-provider.nl, for example. However, some special care is needed for this.

• The CNAME record(s) MUST be included in the ALLOWED_HOSTS configuration parameter.

• The TLS certificate used must include the CNAME domain name.