Can anyone tell me step by step how to connect a godaddy domain to railway?
Can anyone tell me step by step how to connect a godaddy domain to railway?
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Chapter 1. Using Cloudflare
Alright, first you'd want to use Cloudflare as your nameserver instead of GoDaddy
that way you can add CNAMEs on your root, which is probably what you want
To do this, you can go to Cloudflare and make an account if you don't have one already...
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hello fragly
i need of help
Hey there 🙂
Solution
Chapter 1. Using Cloudflare
Alright, first you'd want to use Cloudflare as your nameserver instead of GoDaddy
that way you can add CNAMEs on your root, which is probably what you want
To do this, you can go to Cloudflare and make an account if you don't have one already
once you made an account, you'll see an option to add a website, you simply add your domain in there
and then cloudflare will ask you to change your GoDaddy nameservers to the nameservers they'll provide
basically all you need to do is go to GoDaddy, find the option that lets you change the name server ( ns ) and set it to the values cloudflare gives you, after that - you're done! Your domain is now using Cloudflare nameservers
Chapter 2. Linking it on Railway
Now that you have your domain on Cloudflare, it'll be very easy to add it on your Railway project. Simply go to the deployment where you want to add your domain, then go to the deployment's settings, then scroll down until you see "+ Custom Domain"
Once you see that option, you can click on it and add your domain.
It'll then give you a CNAME value that you want to add to your domain's DNS settings.
To do this, copy the value, then go back to cloudflare, go to your domain's settings, click "DNS" on the left.
If you followed along correctly, you'll now be on your DNS records page. From there you can click "Add Record", then set
Type to CNAME, set the Name to @ ( or the subdomain you're using, example if you're using test.domain.com, then you'll need to add test instead ), and finally paste the value railway gave you into the Target slot.
Now click save.
Finally, go to the SSL/TLS page on the left, click on it and then make sure it's set to Full.
and you're done! Now just wait for Railway to issue your SSL cert, which is fully automaticthank for explanation
thanks!!
Happy to help!!
all right?
@Fragly sorry to bother you again
No problem at all
You need to select
Completookay, thanks!
No problem :)
Unable to establish a secure connection to this site
baroesrtp.com uses an incompatible protocol.
ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH
Protocol not supported
The client and server do not support a version of the common SSL protocol or cipher suite.
=================================================
When I access the website it gives this warning, is it normal? Does it take long to normalize?
I don't see a CNAME on
baroesrtp.com, if you're sure you added the CNAME then you may need to wait for the DNS settings to propogate
Try enabling proxy
it should be enabled by default 🤔
it is true?
ya
I still don't see a CNAME though, might just need to wait a bit.. 🤔
okay, i hope, thanks for the support, any questions I can ask you, thanks
how to activate SSL?
Railway gives you the SSL after it finds the CNAME
but It doesn't seem like that CNAME value is propogating
what does the little
i say on the left, maybe it holds a clueI do not know what happens
I'm baffled
Okay
I was hoping this wasn't the case
but I think you need to redo everything you just did
remove your domain from railway, the dns settings from cloudflare
and then follow my steps again
okay, i do now
Alright, let's hope that works
did not work 😿
would you mind dropping a clickable link to your domain in this chat
okay now you just wait
okay
btw brody, reason I suggested this is because I went back to old threads and found a thread where the same thing happened, and that's what Ray suggested they do, which ended up working
yeah but everything was done correctly this time, and theres no cloudflare outages this time either
Fair, was just grasping at straws
what will be the reason why this happens?
dont know but its nothing out of the ordinary
i undestand, but is there any way to resolve this?
it should resolve itself eventually
how long does it take?
no clue, sorry
its working 
oh yeah it works for me too
told you it would sort itself out
ah yeah, oukay, i hope
oukay?
It worked!
thanksss
awsonme!
Last question, can you tell me some questions about website SEO?
it's a pretty tricky topic and is out of the scope of help channels, but I can link you to some resources I used to figure SEO out
I'll go find them rq
oukay, thanks, very thanks!
from: fragly domain
Probably from the TTL 1 hour. Users who first connected to the domain had it cached as invalid for 1 hour or so (hence the people here only worked after 1 hour). Only when the SSL/DNS propogated (may be less than 1 hour) then SOME people successfully connected.
This is me randomly saying random stuff probably lol