Custom Domains

Point your own domain at your exe.dev VM. TLS certificates are issued automatically. You'll need to visit your DNS provider's configuration to update these.

Subdomains (CNAME)

For non-apex domains like app.example.com, create a CNAME record:

app.example.com  CNAME  vmname.exe.xyz

Apex Domains (ALIAS + CNAME)

For apex domains like example.com, you need two DNS records.

1. CNAME record on www pointing to your VM:

   www.example.com  CNAME  vmname.exe.xyz
   

2. An A record on the apex pointing to the IP of vmname.exe.xyz. However, many providers offer a convenient way to maintain this IP address dynamically, calling these types of records ALIAS or ANAME or flattened CNAME.

   # Lowest Common Denominator
   example.com  A  52.35.87.134
   # Cloudflare
   example.com  CNAME vmname.exe.xyz
   # Many others
   example.com  ALIAS vmname.exe.xyz
   

   The table below points you to the documentation for many common DNS providers.

   Provider	Mechanism	Documentation
   Cloudflare	CNAME	docs
   AWS Route 53	ALIAS	docs
   DNSimple	ALIAS	docs
   Azure DNS	ALIAS	docs
   Google Cloud DNS	ALIAS	docs
   Namecheap DNS	ALIAS	docs
   Porkbun DNS	ALIAS	docs
   DigitalOcean DNS	A	docs