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title: "Configure an Origin"
slug: "configure-an-origin"
updated: 2024-07-07T08:44:21Z
published: 2024-07-07T08:44:21Z
canonical: "docs.qwilt.com/configure-an-origin"
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# Configure an Origin

## Overview

The CDN will acquire content from the origins. An origin must be configured for each site host. Alternative origins can be defined at the path level.

- **Host Origin** - Each site host must define one origin configuration. The origin configuration itself may include one or multiple origin hosts.
- **Path Origin** - You may configure an alternate origin for a specified path. When the CDN receives a request for content in a path for which an origin is configured, the content is retrieved from the path origin and not from the host origin.

[Learn how to configure a host or path origin.](/v1/docs/configure-a-host-or-path-origin)

An origin configuration may include a single origin host, or multiple origin hosts to support a failover or load-balancing workflow.

- [Single Origin](/v1/docs/configure-a-single-origin)- Uses a single origin to acquire content.
- [Origin with Failover](/v1/docs/configure-a-failover-origin) - Configure a failover workflow with multiple origin hosts using timeouts and http error codes.
- [Round Robin List](/v1/docs/configure-a-round-robin-origin) - Configure load-balancing using a round robin method.

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