How to Change a Local Domain to a Public One in Cloudron?

[alejandrolengua]

Hi everyone,
I have set up a LAMP application on Cloudron using a local domain on my own server through a VPN, and everything seems to be working fine after editing my computer's hosts file.

However, I would like to know the correct procedure to change the domain to a public one when the application moves to production.

What steps should I follow?

[joseph]

Does your Cloudron also use a local domain ? Or only the lamp app?

When you say local domain do you mean something like .local ?

Are you using self signed certs and Manual DNS provider ?

The final approach is: add Domain to Cloudron in Domains view (note you add the top level domain like bar.com and not the app domain). then, go to LAMP app -> Location -> change the drop down to bar.com and choose some subdomain like app. That should bei t.

[alejandrolengua]

I'm currently using a .local domain and have asked end-users to edit their hosts files for web application testing. As a result, I'm using self-signed certificates. When I switch to a public domain, obtaining an SSL certificate from Comodo or GoDaddy won't be a problem.

My concern is whether the VPS's current private IP could cause issues, considering the public IP is on the external firewall.

[joseph]

Will you then be port forwarding port 443 from the external firewall to the private IP ?

Think it should be ok, this set up is fairly common .

[alejandrolengua]

I did change the domain of the application, but now it is showing as busy (Configuring - Waiting for propagation of the domain)

[jdaviescoates]

@alejandrolengua have you already created the A record as instructed? If so it's probably just a matter of waiting for propagation like it says. Can be really quick, can take hours (or technically even days but that's pretty rare)