Upload a Static Site

Upload a static site you already built and deploy it as a Wix-managed headless project. Wix hosts and runs your site and connects it to Wix business solutions. There's nothing to install and no terminal required.

Your site gets:

• Managed hosting on a global CDN with automatic SSL.
• A management dashboard for your business data.
• Access to Wix's robust business APIs.

For more information, see About Wix-Managed Headless.

Before you begin

• Make sure your site meets the upload requirements. Wix serves your files as they are and doesn't build them, so upload your build output rather than your project source. For the supported file types, entry-file rules, and size limits, see What You Can Upload.
• You don't need to be logged in to upload, but you do need a Wix account to keep your site.

Step 1 | Upload your site

To upload your site:

1. Go to wix.com/headless/drop.

2. Drag your build output onto the drop zone, or select a folder or a zip file.

   This creates a wix.config.json file, uploads and hosts your files with SSL, CDN, and business APIs configured, and releases your site so it goes live on a *.wix-site-host.com URL.

3. Wait for the process to complete, then open the live URL from the success page to confirm your site is up.

4. Log in or sign up to save your site.

Step 2 | Set up your local project

Wix now holds the files you uploaded plus a generated wix.config.json file that links them to your Wix project. To keep developing, download that project and set up authentication with a Wix client.

Choose one of the following approaches.

Step 3 | (Optional) Re-upload your site

If you continue editing the site on the platform where you originally built it, you can re-upload the updated static files to your existing Wix site.

To update the site:

1. In your project dashboard, click Edit Frontend.
2. On the Update Site card, open Drop. This is the same uploader you used to create the site.
3. Drag your updated build output onto the drop zone, or select a folder or a zip file.

Update Site stays available until you continue working on the site in a local coding tool, such as an AI coding agent or the Wix CLI. After that, publish from your local project with npx wix release.

Step 4 | Continue developing

After your project is set up, keep building:

• Develop with an AI agent. Point your agent at the Wix Headless skill to finish setup and integrate Wix business solutions.
• Manage business data in the dashboard. Manage products, bookings, blog posts, forms, members, and more directly from your project dashboard. No code required.
• Preview locally. Run npx wix preview to test your site locally. Along with release, these are the only project-level CLI commands available for this kind of project.
• Deploy updates with the CLI. Make changes in your local project, build with your framework's own tooling, and run npx wix release to publish them.

For more ways to build on your project, see Develop Your Project.

See also

• What You Can Upload
• About Supported Frameworks
• Develop Your Project
• Deploy Your Own Frontend with the CLI
• About Authentication