Question
How to point my Next.js static page deployed on the App Platform to my root domain?
- Posted on March 28, 2024
- DigitalOcean App Platform
Asked by martynas.siska
Hello,
I have deployed a static site on the App Platform and I have it’s provided link https://clownfish-something.ondigitalocean.app/
Also, I have added my domain to digital ocean.
My question is - how do I point my root domain project.com to my deployed static site?
I can not add A record because it needs an existing droplet or custom IP and I only have the provided link above or if I try to use it in the CNAME record, I can not leave the Hostname field empty so that it would target the root of my domain.
Thank you!
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Hey!
You would need to first start by going to https://cloud.digitalocean.com/apps, click on your app, and click on the Settings tab. Then, click the Edit link to the right of Domains, and the Add Domain button.
On the Add Domain form, enter your custom domain name at the top of the form in the text area under Domain or Subdomain Name, then click to proceed.
Next, you would have two options of doing this:
Using the DigitalOcean nameservers
If you decide to use DigitalOcean’s name servers, copy and paste DigitalOcean’s name servers (
ns1.digitalocean.com,ns2.digitalocean.com,ns3.digitalocean.com) to your domain’s registrar name server records. See our Community tutorial on how to delegate your domain to DigitalOcean’s name servers from popular registrars.DNS changes can take up to 72 hours to propagate across the internet. You can check the progress of the transfer in App Platform’s dashboard.
This should automatically configure the DNS for you so you don’t have to manually add any DNS records.
Using Cloudflare
Alternatively, for pointing your root domain to an App Platform app, you cannot use a CNAME record. Instead, you need to use an ALIAS or ANAME record, Cloudflare offers this type of DNS record.
What you could do in this case is to sign up for Cloudflare, add your domain name there, change your domain’s nameservers to the Cloudflare ones, and then in Cloudflare add the CNAME record for your main domain to point to the CNAME name provided by DigitalOcean.
- Bobby