Question
Subdomain Redirects / Rewrites on the App Platform
- Posted on June 21, 2023
- DigitalOcean App Platform
Asked by 8e6ddf29a7ad41b585487c013a97ae
I have a DO App with a custom domain:
The app has three components
- React frontend at my-app.com
- React content at my-app.com/docs
- NodeJs API at my-app.com/api
Is it possible to redirect/rewrite the last two components to a subdomain?
- my-app.com/docs -> docs.my-app.com
- my-app-com/api -> api.my-app.com
Is there a way to achieve this natively with die DigitalOcean App Platform?
Or is there any reasonable alternative? For example, adding a new component with an Nginx at my-app.com/ with a reverse proxy.
Any input and thoughts would be much appreciated.
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You can partially do this with URL Redirects.
See: https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform/how-to/url-rewrites/#configure-a-redirect
The thing is, you need a route to be configured to a component (specifically for /docs and /api). App Platform doesn’t currently support domain only matching for components, so you’d either need to host those as separate apps with different domains OR redirect to docs.my-app.com/docs and api.my-app.com/api (or similar).
It doesn’t have to be as redundant, but multiple components under the same app can’t have the same route (“/”).