Subdomain and cloudflare

moorlag · February 10, 2023, 9:18am

The following scenario I have planned;

bjoc.nl is our primary domain (for Dutch computer science education content). It’s DNS traffic is handled by Cloudflare because of its excellent DDoS support.
I want to use dev.bjoc.nl for the development of a teaching portal. When everything is working, I want to move that to the main domain and use leren.bjoc.nl for what is now the main content.

How do I point https://bjc-nl.netlify.app to dev.bjoc.nl?
When all the development is done, I want to point https://bjc-nl.netlify.app to www.bjoc.nl. Can I just switch the domains when it’s all working?

I’ve setup the following in Cloudflare; I pointed dev. to 104.198.14.52. Is this the correct load balancer?

(note, bjoc is a translation of the beauty and joy of computing. A great resource to learn to code!)

SamO · February 10, 2023, 4:11pm

You will need to define the custom domain first before you can add the CNAME record on DNS Zone.

So make sure the domain is added to your custom domain list : Custom domains | Netlify Docs

moorlag · February 13, 2023, 7:17pm

I’ve added that some time ago,

audrey · February 14, 2023, 7:29pm

Hi @moorlag ,

104.198.14.52. is our legacy load balancer. The current one is 75.2.60.5

How do I point https://bjc-nl.netlify.app to dev.bjoc.nl

You’ll want to assign the hostname to the Netlify site after configuring DNS.

Hope that helps!