Custom domains

Each project is associated with an Edgee-owned domain under *.edgee.app.

Your default domain is your-project-id.edgee.app and it allows you to get started with Edgee quickly, without worrying about TLS certificates or infrastructural integrations with your existing architecture.

In many cases, you’ll need to create a custom domain so that Edgee handles all requests routed to your website, such as my-website.com.

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Create a new domain

Browse to your project’s Settings panel and select Domains.

Here, click Add domain on the top right.

Now simply enter your domain, such as my-website.com.

There’s no need to select a protocol or any other detail for now.

That’s it! Click Save and let’s more forward with the configuration.

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DNS validation

The next step involves proving that you control the DNS for your domain name by putting a specific value in a CNAME or TXT record such as _acme-challenge.<YOUR_DOMAIN>.

This is a standard procedures and ensures that only verified domain owners can configure new domains on Edgee. Read more about DNS-01 challenge here.

We’re working hard to automate this step for you. In the meantime, please reach out to Edgee support to request your DNS challenge record value.

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SSL certificate

If you want Edgee to be the first entry point to your website, we’ll need to configure a proper SSL/TLS certificate as well.

SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer and an SSL certificate allows Edgee to encrypt and secure communications between your visitors and your website, making sure your traffic is served via HTTPS.

Here you have two options:

1. Use a default Let’s Encrypt certificate that we can generate automatically
2. Provide a custom certificate

We highly recommend option 1 because it simplifies and speeds up the procedure.

Similar to DNS validation, we’re working hard to automate this step for you. In the meantime, please reach out to Edgee support to request a new SSL certificate or provide a custom one.