How to configure netlify to serve my site on app.domain.com (subdomain)?

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Netlify instance name: capitolscience.netlify.com

I’m trying serve my app at app.capitolscience.com. I have pointed the nameservers on Google Domains to the ones in the netlify console. I have also created a CNAME record on Google Domains:

Name: app
Type: CNAME
TTL: 1h
Data: capitolscience.netlify.com.

I can access my app at capitolscience.com but instead I want to access it on app.capitolscience.com. Would appreciate any help, thanks.

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Welcome to the Netlify community!

If you changed the nameservers to the Netlify ones, that means that Netlify takes care of your DNS records. I think you can simply add a custom domain to your site (app.capitolscience.com) and Netlify will pick it up.

You could configure it manually with a CNAME record, but you’ll have to do it in the Netlify DNS panel rather than in Google Domains since you switched the nameservers. I hope this makes sense!

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That makes sense. Another question. If I were to use Google Domains’ nameservers instead of Netlify’s then would creating a CNAME record to point to capitolscience.netlify.com. in Google Domains do the job? I would be removing the custom domains from netlify as well.

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Yes, I think that should do the trick as well.

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I am using Google Domains’ nameservers instead of Netlify’s and created a CNAME record:

Name: app
Type: CNAME
TTL: 1h
Data: capitolscience.netlify.com.

But when I go to app.capitolscience.com I get Not Found. I’ve waited for more than 48 hours after the reconfiguration. Is there anything else that I need to configure?

On Netlify, I only have the default subdomain (capitolscience.netlify.com) configured

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Hi, @ezpz76, I see the DNS record working correctly.

There is only one step left to do. That is do add the custom domain under Site Name > Settings > Domain management > Custom domains.

You can find those settings here. If the custom domain still doesn’t work after adding it there, please let us know.

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