is it possible to do a wildcard sub-domain
ralyodio
HOBBYOP

10 days ago

ok got another one for you is it possible to do a wildcard sub-domain pointing to same app on railway? like *.example.com all goes to port 8080

34 Replies

10 days ago

it is possible, and you do it the exact same way you did in your question, you just add your domain with a * as the subdomain, so adding *.example.com will add a wildcard subdomain to your service


ralyodio
HOBBYOP

10 days ago

oh shit


ralyodio
HOBBYOP

10 days ago

i've been adding www.example.com and example.com this whole time.


10 days ago

it's probably better adding www and @ as their own domains though, because if in the future you want to add a cdn.example.com for example or whatever then it'll complicate things since you'll first need to decouple all subdomains from existing service


ralyodio
HOBBYOP

10 days ago

oh wiat so i can'pt do * with cdn?


ralyodio
HOBBYOP

10 days ago

that's a feature request for me lol


10 days ago

you can, but not in a seperate service


ralyodio
HOBBYOP

10 days ago

8'm letting people use .bl0ggers.com but i might need cdn.bl0ggers.com someday


10 days ago

so let's say you have a seperate cdn service, or maybe a blog.example.com, if you want it to be a in a seperate service then you'd need to undo the wildcard subdomain because with a wildcard subdomain all subdomains are routed to the wildcard subdomain service


ralyodio
HOBBYOP

10 days ago

oh i see


ralyodio
HOBBYOP

10 days ago

so you can't do both


ralyodio
HOBBYOP

10 days ago

unless they are on the same service


ralyodio
HOBBYOP

10 days ago

thats' fine. i usually upt everything in docker on the same serivce


10 days ago

actually nvm I'm wrong, you're probably fine


10 days ago

you can have *.example.com and blog.example.com in a seperate service I think


10 days ago

my bad


10 days ago

I"D STILL argue it's better not to use wildcard subdomains if it's only for www and @ though but it shouldn't interfere in the way I said it would


ralyodio
HOBBYOP

10 days ago

why is this not resolving https://bl0ggers.com/ but www is


10 days ago

wildcard subdomains only match subdomains


10 days ago

it wont match for the root domain


ralyodio
HOBBYOP

10 days ago

so yoyur dns entries are wrong


10 days ago

who's yoyur?


ralyodio
HOBBYOP

10 days ago

your


10 days ago

oh, how so?


ralyodio
HOBBYOP

10 days ago

i assume you work at railway


10 days ago

I'm just a moderator for the server and forums


ralyodio
HOBBYOP

10 days ago

i have to add bl0ggers.com and *.bloggers.com i guess


10 days ago

exactly, wildcard subdomains are only for subdomains


10 days ago

(although personally, I'd recommend being explicit with what domains should route to your service unless you actually need a catch all, but thats just my recommendation)


ralyodio
HOBBYOP

10 days ago

i do need a catchall like chovy.substack.com my bl0ggers page will be chovy.bl0ggers.com


10 days ago

ohh okay, fair enough


9 days ago

all clear to mark as solved?


9 days ago

Funny.


9 days ago

trying to catch up <:whyy:820544448798392330>


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