By stardust
I have my node.js application running successfully via Dokku. I can reach it via my app’s IP address http://1.2.3.4:49168.
Since it’s Dokku, the port number changes every time I deploy. We’ve setup a subdomain to point to it and it works successfully when we access http://subdomain.ourdomainname.com:49168 but the application fails if we try to just use http://subdomain.ourdomainname.com
I’ve followed a few tutorials and taken edited both my /home/dokku/VHOSTS and /home/dokku/myapp/VHOSTS but nothing seems to take.
I can successfully SSH into my application with $ ssh root@subdomain.ourdomainname.com so it seems to me that something is working the way it should.
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This question was answered by @dethi:
Did you setup the subdomain for your app with the domains plugin?
# where `myapp` is the name of your app # add a domain to an app dokku domains:add myapp example.com # list custom domains for app dokku domains myapp # clear all custom domains for app dokku domains:clear myapp # remove a custom domain from app dokku domains:remove myapp example.com
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