2 CNAMEs from domain to Railway, ALIAS to subdomain

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Actually, from a fresh machine it does seem to be redirecting but is giving a privacy warning. Is this a limitation from Railway’s side?

The error is gone, but now I get Railway’s Not Found page.

Must Railway know of all domains that point to my domains? If I have an ALIAS from OtherDomain.com to sub.mydomain.com (registered with railway), do I also need to provision OtherDomain.com at Railway?

you need to use a CNAME, and yes the domain does have to be added to the applicable service

Does Railway support A records at all? I may have a use case where customer provided domains may need to point to my own server.

we only support CNAMEs, sorry

Any workarounds you can think of for this case?

you add their domain to your service and give them the CNAME to set

That’s not gonna be very scalable. Anything else I can do here? (BTW: last time we corresponded you weren’t at Railway, congrats on the new role)

You can use Cloudflare's to manage your domains, and then you can use a snippet to overwrite the host header so that you only need one domain on Railway, requires Cloudflare Pro though

Thanks. Got any pointers?

honestly I forgot what the offering from them is called to make it happen

What about using nginx as a reverse proxy?

that won't work, you'd need to have the domain in railway still since we do host based routing

Even if this proxy is hosted outside of railway?

oh then yes it could work

but if you're going that route, use caddy

I mean customers would point to the proxy, proxy to railway

yeah you can do that, or you can do it with Cloudflare, I'd definitely go the Cloudflare route

With workers? Because host rewriting is available in the ENTERPRISE plan

you can do host rewriting with snippets on pro

not using workers

Got it. $25/mo is a bit much for this MVP. If I go the caddy route, I can only host it outside of Railway?

wouldn't you bake that price into the price you pass onto your customers?

For sure. But I’d like to do this with CF only after a customer actually wants (pays) for it.

fair enough

caddy it is

Must it be outside of Railway though?

yes, somewhere that doesn't do host based routing

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