Anyone know if we can effectively allow our users to connect their own domain name using CNAME record to our app? Ideally we don’t want to use Sub-apps because we use multiple auth systems that require domain hardcoding.
Anyone had any experience with this or how it would work?
Going to bump this up - currently its becoming mission critical for our SaaS and CNAME domain white labelling is an industry standard for SaaS. Given bubble is a programming language for the future, whereby SaaS is being built on it constantly, it seems like something that should be supported.
I have some simple SAAS projects I would like to create, limitation for CNAME/Domain redirection for clients is a limitation that should definitely be on the roadmap.
Can you explain please ? I am not sure you can even do it manually.
If you do a CNAME redirect to anything related to bubble (and even flattening the cname using cloudflare, so it should be dynamically finding the IP of the end name) then you get the “You’ve pointed xxxxx.com to Bubble, but we don’t have an application …”.
Sorry for the confusion, there is no CNAME workaround here. The manual fix is to create sub-apps or app copies then add a separate (sub)domain on each using A records.
For the first few years of Bubble’s existence they had a very active feature request page with a vote up/down feedback system. I’m guessing it was more crucial at the early stage of their business to receive feedback this way and build out features as users demanded them. If you check out their roadmap it’s clear they are planning out phases of their product updates based on how critical they are to growth and infrastructure of the system. I think a CNAME domain feature would be awesome, but as they pointed out you can support custom domains right now with sub-apps.
@vascolucci This will be a major update so not something we can expedite. We have noted the community’s interest in the feature and will post back once we are ready to proceed on this feature request.
@help We are in the same boat, I really wish bubble can make this happen.
This is an essential element to our business and we are really in need to this. What we do right now is we tell our customers to link their domains using the domain Forward & masking to their page on our app from the domain provider side but that not an ideal solution to be honest.
I hope @emmanuel@josh & @neerja or any of the bubble team to suggest a solution for this, and is that on the roadmap for the near future.