Overview
You have set up a custom subdomain for your Progressive Web App (PWA), but would prefer to use your root or base domain instead of a subdomain, this can happen because you want to take advantage of the shorter URL or due to SEO reasons.
As part of setting up a custom PWA subdomain, we will generate and update the SSL Certificate for the custom subdomain. For example, if you own yourdomain.com
, and configure your PWA to the subdomain app.yourdomain.com
, you will be able to access https://app.yourdomain.com
as we generated that certificate.
Prerequisites
- Your custom domain has been set up following our Adding a PWA Custom Domain article.
- You have received email confirmation that the subdomain has been validated by the CMS.
- You can access your PWA by navigating to the custom subdomain.
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Solution
Replace yourdomain.com
and subdomain.yourdomain.com
with your real domain and subdomain in the following examples:
- On your GoDaddy account, search the list of domains for
yourdomain.com
, and select "Manage DNS". - On the bottom of the DNS Management page, look for the Forwarding section.
- Select ADD on the DOMAIN section, a form will appear.
- As we provide a valid SSL certificate for the subdomain you added in our Client CMS Panel, you can change the
http://
field tohttps://
. - Fill the FORWARD TO field with
subdomain.yourdomain.com
. - Set the FORWARD TYPE to
Temporary (302)
until you have tested this redirection to work correctly, afterward you can change it toPermanent (301)
. - On SETTINGS, pick Forward Only.
- Click the "SAVE" button.
- As we provide a valid SSL certificate for the subdomain you added in our Client CMS Panel, you can change the
- The change will start propagating, this can take up to 48 hours.
Note: GoDaddy's Forwarding does not support HTTPS, after following the steps above, you will be able to access subdomain.yourdomain.com
by visiting http://yourdomain.com
, if you try to access it via https://yourdomain.com
, a security error will appear and the connection will be denied.
If you wish to use your root domain with HTTPS to redirect to your PWA subdomain ( https://yourdomain.com
instead of http://yourdomain.com
), you need to acquire an SSL Certificate for that root domain and set up hosting in a server (either shared or dedicated) that allows you to configure website redirection via a web page script, or alternatively, set up redirection directly on the webserver configuration.
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Testing
- Visit
http://yourdomain.com
, if the forwarding has propagated correctly, you should be redirected to your working PWA athttps://subdomain.yourdomain.com
.
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