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Hatchbox: How do I point a Godaddy Domain to a wildcard sub-domain?

Arjun Rajkumar asked in Servers

I run my app on Hatchbox, and have successfully created subdomains for each user.
E.g.
user1.myapp.com
user2.myapp.com
user3.myapp.com
etc.
How do I point user 2's own website (two.com) to user2.myapp.com?

This is what I did:

1) On Godaddy DNS settings under two.com account, I added a CNAME with name 'community' and value 'user2.myapp.com'
So I thought when I visit 'community.two.com' it should display 'user2.myapp.com'.
But, instead it is displaying myapp.com.

Is there something I should add to the NGINX file on Hatchbox - saying 'community.two.com' and 'user2.myapp.com' are connected.

I remember when I was using Heroku - I had to add the domains on Heroku also. Just wondering how to fix this.

Any advice will be really helpful!

Thanks

Arjun

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Solved. Got help from Chris via email.

If anyone is stuck on this --
"
A CNAME just tells your browser which server to talk to. You'll have to write the code in Rails to check the domain to see if it's yours or a customer's in addition to checking the subdomain. You'll want to check the domain first, if it's a customers' look up their account. If it's yours, look at the subdomain, then lookup the account.
"

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Does Chirs have any tutorials on this? Essentially step by step how to let a user add their own domain name to a multitenancy app set up on Heroku? I understand there are lots is questions regarding amount of SSL certs etc that can be issued but I'd love to be able to allow users of a multi-tenancy app load their own domain into my app instead of using subdomains to the app?

I'm new to gorails but pretty much joined hoping I could find help on overcoming this problem. Can't find anything in tutorials in the way of creating this URL set up. Something similar to the Shopify approach would be great. A user can add their own domain instead of using a subdomain.

Thanks for any pointers.

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@bradley I'm in the same situation with an app like Shopify, have you found a good resource to tackle it?

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