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How To Create A WWW CNAME IN APP PLATFORM

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I have a domain and I updated its nameservers to point digitalocean ns. I add this domain in app platform and it is working fine. What I want is I want to redirect www requests to non-www. For this I’ve created a CNAME record with www to point out my root domain. But when I go to www.example.com it gave me a cloudflare error like " Error 1001 DNS resolution error "

What is wrong ?

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siou10 • November 17, 2022

We understand you are wanting to point your subdomains to your apex domain in app platform. Unfortunatetly this isn’t possible in app platform. All domains you wish to point to your app would need to be CNAMEd to to the default URL of the app. Even your apex domain in app platform does this. If you don’t want to add a wildcard then you would need to manually add each subdomain as a domain to your app. Using our DNS services you don’t need to manually create CNAME records when you do this as they would automatically be added by app platform.

This is required due to the way SSL’s are configured in app platform. For those to be issued for subdomains they each need to be CNAMED to the default URL and added to the app’s domains under its settings.

Let us know if you have any questions.

Answer from support ticket.

siou10 • November 17, 2022

Did you find a solution? I’m facing the same problem.

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