Azure CDN custom domain / redirect from GoDaddy

Question

I haven't managed to configure the root domain as a custom domain for the Azure CDN, so I decided to use Permanent Forwarding as a work around. It is ended up as I am getting a privacy error from the browser when I try to open my website without "wwww".

Here is my setup:

Can someone help me with this. My goal is to allow users to access lorehub.app with and without www.

Answer 1

Hello @Andrei Kniazev ,

In order to access your website without www (which is your apex/root domain), you need to onboard your root domain to Azure CDN endpoint as mentioned in the below article:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cdn/onboard-apex-domain

However, the challenge that comes up is DNS protocol prevents the assignment of CNAME records at the zone apex. For example, if your domain is contoso.com; you can create CNAME records for somelabel.contoso.com; but you can't create CNAME for contoso.com itself. This problem can be resolved by using alias records in Azure DNS. Mapping your apex or root domain to your CDN profile requires CNAME flattening or DNS chasing. This functionality is supported by Azure DNS for CDN endpoints. There are other DNS providers as well that support CNAME flattening or DNS chasing, however, Azure CDN recommends using Azure DNS for its customers for hosting their domains.

I am not very familiar with GoDaddy DNS but after researching, I couldn't find a similar feature in GoDaddy. You may need to contact them for further information.
Please refer : https://in.godaddy.com/community/Managing-Domains/CNAME-ANAME-or-ALIAS-support-for-APEX-domain/td-p/136281

So not sure if this can be done via GoDaddy. But if you are interested in using Azure DNS, you can delegate your domain to Azure DNS and manage your DNS records in Azure DNS and here you will be able to create an Alias record which will help you onboard your apex domain to Azure CDN.
Please refer : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/dns/dns-domain-delegation
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/dns/dns-delegate-domain-azure-dns

Post this, you should be able to access lorehub.app with and without www.

Kindly let us know if the above helps or you need further assistance on this issue.

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