Point a seperate domain to surfer app

[GeHo]

I hope this hasn't been asked many time but i couldn't find any relating entry, so ...

On my cloudron server the surfer app just runs fine. But I wonder if i could point seperate domain to a single surfer app. So let's say my surfer is up and running at https:://surfer.<cloudron>.<tld>. Now i have a separate domain like https://<my-private-site>.<tld> which should serve the content from the surfer app.

In a standard enviroment i would simply adjust the nginx-settings to redirect the domain to the surfer-domain. But how would you do that the cloudron way?

[fbartels]

Cloudron has a concept of aliases and redirects. In your case you could set up an alias to have your surfer app show the same data (without redirecting to the cloudron tld) as https:://surfer.<cloudron>.<tld>.

[GeHo]

Aliases and Redirects do not provide the behaviour I would like to achieve.

For example, I have a surfer app at surfer.example.com with in index.html that prints out "Hello Surfer World". Additionally I have a external Domain like example.org . I want to set up this domain in a way that when I enter https:://www.example.org in a browser window it would serve my index.html with "Hello Surfer World".

I my understanding this would require the ability to alter the primary cloudron nginx.

[GeHo]

Sorry, now I get it.

I just have to register the external domain example.org in the Domain Panel and then create an alias in my surfer app with no entry.
(That's why it says "Leave empty to use bare domain").

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

[nebulon]

Yes your approach seems correct here. Cloudron will not overwrite any existing DNS records, so it is safe to add example.org in this case, even if its used elsewhere.