Question

How to link a static site on the App Platform to a subdomain

On the App platform I have setup a web service (API), a database and a static site.

Access to the static site is through: mydomain.com The web service has the route: mydomain.com/api I have the DNS managed by DigitalOcean

And all works well.

I now want to ADD a new static site to my app platform that I can access on the subdomain: portal.mydomain.com However I cannot find out how to do this. I checked the question “How to setup subdomain with DO Apps and Namecheap?” on this platform but that does not answer my question or I do not understand the answer. I did manage to setup the subdomain portal.mydomain.com, but that links to the static site for mydomain.com

Is this possible and how do I do this?

Show comments

Submit an answer


This textbox defaults to using Markdown to format your answer.

You can type !ref in this text area to quickly search our full set of tutorials, documentation & marketplace offerings and insert the link!

Sign In or Sign Up to Answer

These answers are provided by our Community. If you find them useful, show some love by clicking the heart. If you run into issues leave a comment, or add your own answer to help others.

Jon Friesen
DigitalOcean Employee
DigitalOcean Employee badge
March 21, 2021
Accepted Answer

👋 @EricSom

Great question, currently we do not support this functionality, but I can definitely see the use. It’d be great if you could request it over here: https://ideas.digitalocean.com/ideas?project=APPX

As a work-around you could create a second app that only has your new static site and create a CNAME record from your mydomain.com domain.

This is the solution I have used and works well, thanks

CNAME won’t work for me, I need to point A and AAAA records to a subdomain so that I can also have MX records on that subdomain. Any solution being worked on?

Become a contributor for community

Get paid to write technical tutorials and select a tech-focused charity to receive a matching donation.

DigitalOcean Documentation

Full documentation for every DigitalOcean product.

Resources for startups and SMBs

The Wave has everything you need to know about building a business, from raising funding to marketing your product.

Get our newsletter

Stay up to date by signing up for DigitalOcean’s Infrastructure as a Newsletter.

New accounts only. By submitting your email you agree to our Privacy Policy

The developer cloud

Scale up as you grow — whether you're running one virtual machine or ten thousand.

Get started for free

Sign up and get $200 in credit for your first 60 days with DigitalOcean.*

*This promotional offer applies to new accounts only.