Add a CNAME record that points out the deploy from the development branch

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#1

The problem that I have now is how to add a CNAME record that points out the deploy from the development branch of a certain repo to my Netlify DNS zone.
For instance, I would expect https://beta-show.example.com to have the deploy from the development branch while https://show.example.com to have the deploy from the master branch.
I do not want the branch deploy to be something like https://development.show.example.com.
I tried to add a CNAME record manually but that did not work for me. It just did render “Not Found”

I’d like Netlify community to help me figure out this problem
Thanks!

#2

Sorry, your expectations are incorrect.

Branch subdomains MUST match the pattern branchname.yoursitescustomdomain.com - they do not work in any other way (except branchname--yournetlifysitename.netlify.com)

If you want a branch served at another name - you need to create a separate site and configure that branch as the “production” branch, and apply the custom domain you want (which can be any name you control :))

#3

@fool Thanks for your kind response.

I created a separate site and configured the development branch as the “production” branch. I could apply the custom subdomain. but still the problem I have now is that the development branch deploy is running the script for the production. that is because the development branch was set to production in that site. I looked up for how to inject an environment variable into the netlify.toml but only headers and redirects are allowed to be injected.
Can you advise me a solution?

Thanks

#4

That is a tough challenge if you use production context in netlify.toml to use different settings per context.

I guess you could change it to [context.master] and [context.branchname] to separate the two, perhaps?

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#5

Yes that worked! Thank you, @fool