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Seven Steps to Setup a Side Project Domain

Josh Hadik on February 05, 2019

I wrote a separate article called Organize Your Side Projects with a Single Domain that explains what a side project domain is, and why you should ...
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Favour George

Thanks for the heads up, I have successfully implemented one here yeepkamp.techam.org, but when I visit yeepkamp.herokuapp.com it still works. Is there a way to redirect from the herokuapp to this new DNS?

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Tony Dehnke

The Heroku docs say you need to register both the custom root domain and the subdomain, but when I try to do this it says : is not permitted as it conflicts with other records with the same DNS name in zone

devcenter.heroku.com/articles/cust...

I'm a bit confused as the root domain goes to my marketing site.

Do you have any thoughts on this?

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Pritesh Usadadiya

I didn't know it would be that easy. Thank you for this @joshhadik
Can you do something like this for DigitalOcean too ?

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Josh Hadik

I haven't actually worked with DigitalOcean before, but it's been on my list of things to learn... maybe this would a good reason!

I'll let you know if I write something up!

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Sandor Dargo

Great recommendation! Thanks!

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Josh Hadik

Anytime!

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Phani Teja Komaravolu

Great job. Simplified operations for me!

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Josh Hadik

Awesome! Glad I could help