How to use your own domain on Rompli

I am going to show you how to point your Rompli app to a domain that you own.

Step 1: Add an alias domain

When you deploy an app from the quick launch form you can specify an alias domain under the “Advanced Settings” section. This value will be the domain that you want to point to. It should look something like this.

You can see that I put www.chucktweets.com (a domain that I own) as the alias. Click Deploy Container

Now you’ll notice that in your deployments the link will be the url you specified in the alias field.

Step 2: Set your DNS

Now you have to go to where you manage your DNS servers. I use Route 53 for Rompli but for this scenario I’m going to use Cloudflare because Rompli doesn’t currently support custom SSL and Cloudflare comes with SSL by default.

All I have to do is add a CNAME with the name www and give the value testapp.rompli.com and make sure the traffic goes through Cloudflare.

Now if we go to www.chucktweets.com we’ll see our Rompli app with SSL.

I used cloudflare in this example but the exact same method is used for Route53, Namecheap, etc.

Note to meteor users: It has been said in the past that Cloudflare isn’t great for meteor apps because they don’t support websockets, however, that is no longer true as of earlier this year: https://www.cloudflare.com/websockets/