Unable to use domain root to host function

I can see that the root _APP_DOMAIN_FUNCTIONS is blocked from being used for functions on the below file line https://github.com/appwrite/appwrite/blob/c076dfe6f14ddacc4f658fdff85fbdbe31e05636/app/controllers/general.php#L63

For my current implementation, that means that the domain root cannot be used? I was originally interested in using an Appwrite function to host a site at the root, as well as sites on subdomains, but currently that seems impossible.

I guess this is mostly just a request for confirmation 🙂

I would suggest using a dedicated domain for your appwrite instance like appwrite.mycompany.com because your appwrite instance can have multiple projects. For 1 of your sites (which I'm assuming is 1 function in one of your projects), you could create a custom function domain with whatever domain you want (myapp.com)

so that is what I am doing, for appwrite itself, but with the goal of hosting sites on *.mycompany.com I had set the _APP_DOMAIN_FUNCTIONS env var to mycompany.com

This is largely due to my current implementation with Cloudflare proxy, and a nginx reverse proxy handling LetsEncrypt certificates.

I suspect that I would need to adjust my proxy implementation a bit for this to work properly

with the _APP_DOMAIN_FUNCTIONS, appwrite generates a custom unique subdomain for each function like:

asjidojriweoj.domain.com

so it doesn't make sense to use that for a website URL/domain.

I was manually assigning the subdomains I wanted to specific functions Like this one right here: https://test.plygrnd.org

I'm reading through your medium nginx post right now

maybe you can do:

_APP_DOMAIN=appwrite.mycompany.com
_APP_DOMAIN_FUNCTIONS=functions.appwrite.mycompany.com

And then if you want a site at test.mycompany.com, create a custom function domain for that in the function

Cloudflare wont do this with the free plan functions.appwrite.mycompany.com And from what I have seen, if I dont set _APP_DOMAIN_FUNCTIONS to the root domain, then the domain verification pops up with the CNAME prompt, which never works

with _APP_DOMAIN_FUNCTIONS as the domain root, the domains are validated automatically it seems

in nginx you'd have multiple domains for the same proxy host:

• appwrite.mycompany.com
• *.functions.appwrite.mycompany.com
• test.mycompany.com

I was just doing *.mycompany.com with a cloudflare DNS challenge

if that works on the cloudflare side, sure.

on the nginx side...i think *.mycompany.com only goes 1 level so you'd need another entry for *.functions.appwrite.mycompany.com. maybe, im not sure

I'll give it a shot, thank you!

it just refuses to verify

even though if I navigate to plygrnd.org I get the appwrite login page

WAIT! even better, verification fails, but the function is working!

thats a riot