Create proxy

This guide explains how to connect your domain to your container.

Proxies connect your container through a domain to the outside world.


Prerequirements

  1. Own a domain through a domain name register.
  2. Have access to the DNS settings of this domain.
  3. Have created a container.

Create your proxy

  1. Navigate to your dashboard, select your project, and your container.
  2. Navigate to "Proxies".
  3. Click "Create proxy".
  4. Enter your domain you want to use.
  5. The system displays two DNS records you need to create, save these records for the next step.

Note that you can only create proxys on top level domains. If you want to connect to your TLD use www as the subdomain.


Connect your proxy to your DNS

  1. Navigate to the DNS settings of your domain registar.
  2. Create two records these records will also show when you created the proxy.
    • Type: CNAME

      Host: {subdomain}

      Value: {container_id}.containers.aurtic.cloud

      TTL: Default or 3600 seconds

    • Type: CNAME

      Host: _acme-challenge.{subdomain}

      Value: acme.{container_id}.containers.aurtic.cloud

      TTL: Default or 3600 seconds