Custom domains

Serve a public service at your own domain or subdomain, like shop.example.com, with a certificate issued for you.

Add one

  1. Open the service's Networking → Custom domains and add the domain.
  2. At your domain's DNS provider, create the record it shows:
TypeNameTarget
CNAMEshopdomains.smartalfred.com

The name is the part before your domain (some providers want the whole hostname).

  1. Wait for it: the status goes from Waiting for DNS to Issuing certificate to Live, usually within a few minutes. Check asks again right away and shows what your DNS says now.

You add shop.example.com under the service's Networking, Custom domains. It waits for DNS until your DNS provider has the CNAME record shop pointing at domains.smartalfred.com. Once that's seen, a certificate for HTTPS is issued for you. Within minutes it's live, and https://shop.example.com answers.

From the command line, alf domains add shop.example.com does the same: it says the record to create and waits until the domain is live with HTTPS.

Root domains

A root domain like example.com can't have a CNAME at most providers. Use an ALIAS or ANAME record pointing at domains.smartalfred.com, or CNAME flattening (automatic on Cloudflare). Or use www.example.com instead.

Domains on Cloudflare

If your domain's DNS is on Cloudflare, set the record to DNS only (grey cloud).

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