DNS trouble
I added a custom domain to a service, an angular app. I talked to my domain provider in DK, and they told me that they cannot create CNAMES on the main domain, it has to be a IP pointer in the form of an A-record instead.
What to do?
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as your domain provider stated, they don't support root level cnames, so instead you will have to use cloudflare's nameservers, they have a guide for that here
https://developers.cloudflare.com/automatic-platform-optimization/get-started/change-nameservers/
But I don't use cloudflare.
youd need to use their nameservers
you dont need to transfer your domain, dont worry
Thanks, I'll take a look
sounds good!
Is it possible to do with a free Cloud flare plan?
Cloud flare is asking me to create custom nameservers and point them to Cloud flare's nameservers and that requires a business plan which costs 200 USD per month. Surely there's a cheaper solution.
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perhaps it will be cheaper to move my domain to Cloud flare
You can absolutely use CF for free; I have 30ish domains there and haven’t paid a single cent apart from registration
Maybe I'm on a wrong path
Oh no, you don’t want custom nameservers on CF
Use their nameservers
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Step 1: Adding your domain to Cloudflare
This tutorial covers creating a Cloudflare account, adding a domain, changing nameservers and checking imported DNS records. Sign up Go to dash.cloudflare.com/sign-up, enter your Email and create a password, read the terms and notices and click ‘Create Account’ Add site Enter your domain. This has to be your actual domain (e.g. mydomain.c...
This looks promising 🙂
I'm still struggling 😢
I have changed my nameservers to Cloud flare's at my domain provider, they have added DNSSEC for me, but I'm missing something.
My custom root domain for my service at Railway still says "Waiting for DNS update, follow instructions etc."
can you show us some screenshots of what you have going on? I'd like to see the domains you have in the railway service and the DNS settings of cloudflare
Hi Brody. I finally got it working. I was missing www in the custom domain on my service.
ah awsome, glad you could get it working!
Thanks! I'm relieved, because we have a workshop with the municipality next week, and it looks more professional if you have a live app running.
that's true!