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Dokku always deploy to the top level domain

Posted September 15, 2014 10.2k views

Dears,
I’m new to Dokku and I need a little help

After installing an image with Dokku and adding the SSH keys and everything
I have 2 node.js apps and I want them to be at node1.example.com and node2.example.com

The issue I’m facing is that when I do a git push I find that the top level domain ex:“example.com” always points to the latest app deployed
and also the subdomain is not working

So that means that any app I deploy always gets deployed to the top level domain and not a subdomain

Isn’t Dokku who handles this or there’s any configurations from my side ?

command used to deply:
After cloning a git repo

git remote add node1 dokku@example.com:node1

git push node1 master

of course I’ve changed example.com to my domain name and updated the records on DO’s DNS page

Even after the deployment is done Dokku says:

=====> Application deployed:
http://node1.example.com

but when I try to open the URL I get a white page and when I visit the top level domain I get the app

So please help and thanks for your time

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asb September 15, 2014

It sounds like you have your DNS configured incorrectly. You need two A records, the first pointing to the domain (example) and the second is a wildcard subdomain (*.example.com).

Checkout: How to Use the DigitalOcean Dokku Application

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txgruppi September 15, 2014

The top level domain problem I fixed by manually defining the domain for one of the apps.

At the end of the execution for git push node1 master you should have a message saying which domian was given to your app. e.g. http://example.com:49153 or http://node1.example.com

My website’s top level domain http://txgruppi.com/ is actually the http://site.txgruppi.com/ app

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MuhammadSaleh September 16, 2014

Guys,
My current settings are:
http://i.imgur.com/xWQZKg9.png

And it still didn’t work

Your help is greatly appreciated

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  • txgruppi September 16, 2014

    Can you post here the output for git push node1 master ?

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  • MuhammadSaleh September 16, 2014 
    root@msaleh:~/www/productframework# git push pr master
The authenticity of host 'msaleh.me (127.0.1.1)' can't be established.
ECDSA key fingerprint is 7d:0e:49:79:63:6b:48:7e:b1:fe:4c:47:53:48:91:9f.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
Warning: Permanently added 'msaleh.me' (ECDSA) to the list of known hosts.
dokku@msaleh.me's password:
Counting objects: 173, done.
Compressing objects: 100% (148/148), done.
Writing objects: 100% (173/173), 582.26 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done.
Total 173 (delta 14), reused 173 (delta 14)
-----> Cleaning up ...
-----> Building pr ...
remote: Cloning into '/tmp/tmp.f7F5EsPcx7'...
remote: warning: You appear to have cloned an empty repository.
remote: done.
remote: HEAD is now at 2457869... Procfile
       Node.js app detected

       PRO TIP: Specify a node version in package.json
       See https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/nodejs-support

-----> Defaulting to latest stable node: 0.10.31
-----> Downloading and installing node
-----> Installing dependencies
       npm WARN deprecated static-favicon@1.0.2: use serve-favicon module
       debug@0.7.4 node_modules/debug

       express-ejs-layouts@1.1.0 node_modules/express-ejs-layouts

       static-favicon@1.0.2 node_modules/static-favicon

       cookie-parser@1.0.1 node_modules/cookie-parser
       ├── cookie-signature@1.0.3
       └── cookie@0.1.0

       morgan@1.0.1 node_modules/morgan
       └── bytes@0.3.0

       ejs@0.8.8 node_modules/ejs

       body-parser@1.0.2 node_modules/body-parser
       ├── qs@0.6.6
       ├── raw-body@1.1.7 (string_decoder@0.10.31, bytes@1.0.0)
       └── type-is@1.1.0 (mime@1.2.11)

       express@4.2.0 node_modules/express
       ├── parseurl@1.0.1
       ├── merge-descriptors@0.0.2
       ├── utils-merge@1.0.0
       ├── cookie-signature@1.0.3
       ├── cookie@0.1.2
       ├── escape-html@1.0.1
       ├── debug@0.8.1
       ├── qs@0.6.6
       ├── fresh@0.2.2
       ├── range-parser@1.0.0
       ├── methods@1.0.0
       ├── buffer-crc32@0.2.1
       ├── serve-static@1.1.0
       ├── path-to-regexp@0.1.2
       ├── type-is@1.1.0 (mime@1.2.11)
       ├── send@0.3.0 (debug@0.8.0, mime@1.2.11)
       └── accepts@1.0.1 (negotiator@0.4.7, mime@1.2.11)
-----> Caching node_modules directory for future builds
-----> Cleaning up node-gyp and npm artifacts
-----> Building runtime environment
-----> Discovering process types
       Procfile declares types -> web
-----> Releasing pr ...
-----> Deploying pr ...
=====> Application deployed:
       http://pr.msaleh.me

To dokku@msaleh.me:pr
 * [new branch]      master -> master
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  • MuhammadSaleh September 16, 2014

    also both VHOST and HOSTNAME files contains my domain name

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MuhammadSaleh September 16, 2014

Guys thank you a lot it worked :)
I had to change my DNS settings from *.msaleh.me to just * and wait for 3 to 6 hours
Thanks a lot :)

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