2 years ago
There is something I am not understanding when it comes to domains.
I purchased my domain (dbme.app) from GoDaddy.
In the Railway Admin Console I have tried to point dbme.app to my running app on railway.
It says:
Configure DNS Records
To finish setting up your custom domain, add the following DNS records.
It's saying to add the CNAME… but to what to I add it??
I must login to GoDaddy and place it somewhere there??
I did check some other threads here that mention CNAME but left those scratching my head.
Thanks in advance for any tips.
Matt M.
7 Replies
2 years ago
I found the place (Domain Portfolio) on Godaddy's site to enter the CNAME record but it's not clear what I must enter there.
I tried some things but the get rejected.
I 've chatted with a GoDaddy dude about it and they don't know much… they are saying I need to take it up with Railway.
I choose Type: CNAME and then it wants me to enter a Name and Value.
Apparently there are some heavy rules on what I can put into the Name or Value fields.
I would have thought that the Value would just be the CNAME given by Railway.
But then… what to put for Name?
I tried a single @ but it does not like that.
I was not wanting any sub-domain at this time for dbme.app.
Does anyone here have experience setting DNS from GoDaddy to point to railway?
2 years ago
GoDaddy doesn't support CNAME flattening that we rely on. Refer to https://docs.railway.app/guides/public-networking#redirecting-a-root-domain-workarounds
2 years ago
Ok, I was finally able to get the GoDaddy interface to accept @ as the Name.
All should be good now.
Thanks.
2 years ago
ah… I was wrong… it did not take.
Ok, I will try the workarounds you have suggested.
Thanks for the help.
2 years ago
Hello @rc, I used the info at the link you gave to leverage cloudfare.
Cloudfare shows my domain (dbme.app) as "active" and Railway says "Cloudfare proxy detected" but when I go to dbme.app the response I get is
ERRTOOMANY_REDIRECTS
Do you know what else I may be missing?
The login page of my app comes up fine when I use the Railway-provided "direct" URL to my app.
Thanks for any (more) help you can offer.
Matt M.
Status changed to Solved railway[bot] • over 1 year ago
2 years ago
ooooh…. that did it.
It works now!
Thanks!!
Status changed to Archived railway[bot] • 12 months ago