Custom domain DNS record
I just purchased a domain and I am adding it within my railway deployment. The problem is that it wants me to add a CNAME with the value of '@' but I cannot do that as it says I need to enter a valid name like "www" or "mail". I changed the name to "railway" in the DNS records (it fails with 'www' as well for some reason) but i'm not sure if it will even be detected. Does the exact name not matter, or am I required to use the Name of '@' ? I have a feeling my railway deployment won't recognize the record since I can't add the name specified. Any suggestions?
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My guess is that your DNS provider does not support root level subdomains, that is what
@ represents, my recommendation would be to use Cloudflare as a nameserver instead28 Replies
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My guess is that your DNS provider does not support root level subdomains, that is what
@ represents, my recommendation would be to use Cloudflare as a nameserver insteadI have a pretty in depth tutorial on how to do that here: https://discord.com/channels/713503345364697088/1184564652898779256/1184566739539873803
even in cloudfare it says i can't add cname with root name because it already exists, that does not exist though
I don't think it displays as
@ on cloudflare, check for a domain that has your domain name as the record and remove itI ported my domain in, switched the nameservers to cloudfare provided ones, but both in cloudfare and go daddy, i can't add the records provided by railway idk why
ok one sec
removed the one with my domain name, added the one provided by railway and it just gives me this
there's no record with my domain name in it now, math aint mathing on this one lol
mind sending me a screenshot of your DNS records?
it doesn't let me remove the one with my domain name in godaddy, in cloudfare when i remove it, i still get the same error when adding the railway one afterword
removed the CNAME with my domain name and it fails when adding root record with railway info. did you mean to remove the A types or CNAME?
these need to be removed
ah gotcha
this too
ah nice yeah that did the trick
awesome!!
i can't delete any records in go daddy lol
yea makes sense, it's no problem
okay so at this point railway should recognize it soon?
yea, just give it a few minutes and it should be ready
domain is purchased, wiating on cloudfare to verify ownership though
sweet, thank you
happy to help 🙂
sweet!! the page doesn't actually load of course but i figure it needs a few more minutes
maybe because of the redirect settings i did on cloudfare
i take that back lol, it switched back to the "waiting for DNS update" status. i think i'm going to step away for liek 20 minutes and let it try to do it's thing
make sure you have your TLS/SSL config set to full in cloudflare
that did it
sweet thanks so much!!
you're the goat
no problem at all :D