<@453920106498621451> I'm reading Setup Pages for a SaaS platform and trying to follow it. Does ever

@Walshy I'm reading Setup Pages for a SaaS platform and trying to follow it. Does every customer have a CNAME to customers.example.com? If so how is a user directed to a customer's website without a server?

Bbusterroni <@453920106498621451> I'm reading Setup Pages for a SaaS platform and trying to ...

Isaac McFadyen•7/18/24, 10:15 PM

So Cloudflare will internally look at the association of sites to pages projects and send the request to the Pages site that has the customer's hostname.

Isaac McFadyen•7/18/24, 10:16 PM

You add the customer's hostname to Pages (but then CNAME to the main one, customers.example.com)

Isaac McFadyen•7/18/24, 10:16 PM

Then Pages knows where to send requests.

Isaac McFadyen•7/18/24, 10:16 PM

(correct me if I'm wrong though Walshy)

Walshy•7/18/24, 10:16 PM

so for one project for all customers, they can share a cname e.g. customers.example.comcustomers.example.com

for one project per-customer best to do their own cname so <customer-name>.customers.example.com<customer-name>.customers.example.com

Bbusterroni so i can build my project on the free plan with a lot of users?

Walshy•7/18/24, 10:17 PM

yup

IIsaac McFadyen You add the customer's hostname to Pages (but then CNAME to the main one, custom...

busterroniOP•7/18/24, 10:18 PM

how do I add the customer's hostname to pages?

WWalshy so for one project for all customers, they can share a cname e.g. `customers.exa...

busterroniOP•7/18/24, 10:19 PM

I am not doing one project for all customers. What is a use-case for doing that?

Bbusterroni how do I add the customer's hostname to pages?

Isaac McFadyen•7/18/24, 10:19 PM

You'll need to use the API probably. If you have 1 or 2 customers you can manually add them in the dashboard but that won't scale to many customers.

Walshy•7/18/24, 10:20 PM

there's saas' where they aren't changing much per-customer in the looks department, it's mostly just loading backend data so they can use a Function to handle both of those (rewrite HTML + fetch data)

Walshy•7/18/24, 10:20 PM

those can have thousands of customers on a single project

busterroniOP•7/18/24, 10:24 PM

i am testing adding a subdomain on the dashboard and got Verification is in undefined statusVerification is in undefined status

busterroniOP•7/18/24, 10:24 PM

now it is working

busterroniOP•7/18/24, 10:26 PM

@Walshy I am going to do the approach of a subdomain for each user, so user.customers.example.com, but to test it I tried adding customers.example.com to two different projects and on the second got

That domain is already associated with an existing project. Use a different domain or find the project already using this domain and remove it.

That domain is already associated with an existing project. Use a different domain or find the project already using this domain and remove it.

busterroniOP•7/18/24, 10:26 PM

Is that expected?

Walshy•7/18/24, 10:27 PM

so user.customers.example.com, but to test it I tried adding customers.example.com

did you add two distinct user domains or customerscustomers?

Walshy•7/18/24, 10:27 PM

if the latter, then yeah, the error is what it says

busterroniOP•7/18/24, 10:27 PM

Both projects have customers.example.com

Walshy•7/18/24, 10:27 PM

yeah that'll be why, you'd need <user>.customers.

busterroniOP•7/18/24, 10:28 PM

Right I would expect this error, that's what I was asking about earlier. But the docs you shared suggest this approach I think?

Walshy•7/18/24, 10:28 PM

it says you can do that, it's mainly setting up a single project there not multiple

Walshy•7/18/24, 10:29 PM

goes back to the different way of saasing, one project vs multiple

for you, you'd want a customer domain per-project whereas one project can share

busterroniOP•7/18/24, 10:29 PM

ok I think the docs could be more clear. I'm happy to make a contribution btw

WWalshy so for one project for all customers, they can share a cname e.g. `customers.exa...

Walshy•7/18/24, 10:29 PM

busterroniOP•7/18/24, 10:29 PM

@Isaac McFadyen I may have misunderstood your messages, if not then I'm not sure we're on the same page about how this works

busterroniOP•7/18/24, 10:30 PM

@Walshy there is a way I could do it so there is a project per user, and also all users have customers.example.com. But I'd need to add some kind of server code right?

Walshy•7/18/24, 10:31 PM

you'd need a worker in front to route based on hostname (or whatever)

busterroniOP•7/18/24, 10:32 PM

so this means I'm adding a new DNS record to my website for each customer right? e.g. user1.customers.example.com user2.customers.example.com

busterroniOP•7/18/24, 10:32 PM

so at some point I'd reach the limit of DNS records, and it's a bit messy to manage

Walshy•7/18/24, 10:32 PM

this is why automation is good :p

busterroniOP•7/18/24, 10:33 PM

i'm not worried about automation, just about limits

Walshy•7/18/24, 10:33 PM

but sure, you can use a worker instead and not do it that way

busterroniOP•7/18/24, 10:33 PM

and not really worried about it, just making sure I understand it correctly

Walshy•7/18/24, 10:33 PM

raising limits is easy

busterroniOP•7/18/24, 10:33 PM

so it's true that each user needs one record on my domain

Walshy•7/18/24, 10:33 PM

if you didn't want to throw a worker in front yeah

Walshy•7/18/24, 10:33 PM

but you can also easily throw a worker in front

Walshy•7/18/24, 10:33 PM

just means you pay for each request

busterroniOP•7/18/24, 10:34 PM

yeah i'll avoid it for now

Walshy•7/18/24, 10:35 PM

pages has multiple dns records per project, trust me dns limits aren't a big deal haha

busterroniOP•7/18/24, 10:36 PM

if a customer wants to have preview domains, can they testing.example.customer.com if they have something on testing.example.pages.dev without additional work? or do I need to add a new dns record for each one

Walshy•7/18/24, 10:37 PM

dns isn't that magic sadly

Walshy•7/18/24, 10:37 PM

you'd need a new record

busterroniOP•7/18/24, 10:37 PM

since i'm doing one project per domain, I can skip step 3 in the docs? > Next, to onboard customers to this Pages project, add their custom domain to the project. You can do this over the API

Walshy•7/18/24, 10:38 PM

yep

Walshy•7/18/24, 10:38 PM

well no, you still need to add a customer domain

Walshy•7/18/24, 10:38 PM

but only once

busterroniOP•7/18/24, 10:38 PM

hm maybe it's just taking time to update. it's working without the customer domain on pages

busterroniOP•7/18/24, 10:38 PM

ah it just broke lol
CNAME Cross-User Banned

busterroniOP•7/18/24, 10:53 PM

@Walshy how do I add a custom subdomain to go to the preview url? I think I need to do it from the DNS page rather than on the custom domains https://developers.cloudflare.com/pages/how-to/custom-branch-aliases/

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