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Railway4mo ago
hmh

Custom domain name with Hover

I'm having trouble getting my custom domain to work in Railway. When I go to add it, it says to make a CNAME record at the root (@). I use Hover for my domains, and it seems they don't allow that: https://help.hover.com/hc/en-us/articles/217282457-Managing-DNS-records#h_5eab4aa7-b044-4cc6-a3c0-5869f583edc8 Is there another method I can use?
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Managing DNS records
When connecting your domain to other services, which could include a website or mail provider, you will need to update the DNS records associated with the domain. DNS records can be compared to the...
Solution:
You can proxy through cloudflare You can do that by going to cloudflare, adding your domain then following the instructions to change your nameserver from Hover to Cloudflare you'll then be able to change DNS settings in cloudflare, which will allow you to add a CNAME on the root of the domain...
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Percy
Percy4mo ago
Project ID: 5eab4aa7-b044-4cc6-a3c0-5869f583edc8
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Fragly
Fragly4mo ago
You can proxy through cloudflare You can do that by going to cloudflare, adding your domain then following the instructions to change your nameserver from Hover to Cloudflare you'll then be able to change DNS settings in cloudflare, which will allow you to add a CNAME on the root of the domain For an in depth tutorial, I'd recommend reading this: https://discord.com/channels/713503345364697088/1184564652898779256/1184566739539873803
hmh
hmh4mo ago
Ah. Good tip. I'll give that a try