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How to Deploy a Website with a Custom Domain Using Cosmic
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Cosmic Blog How to Deploy a Website with a Custom Domain Using Cosmic
by Tony Spiro on June 14, 2016
Update
This article goes over features (web deployment, custom domains) that are now deprecated. We now recommend that you deploy your websites and apps to your preferred hosting providers.
Cosmic is a powerful CMS API that allows you to manage content for your websites and applications faster and easier. But did you know that you can also use Cosmic to deploy code to your website (in any language) from any GitHub repository? In addition to deploying content and code, starting today you can also add unlimited domains to your deployed application. This is revolutionary because it means that moving forward all you need to launch your website is a git repository, a domain name provider and Cosmic! No more hosting server necessary! I’ve added a couple of screencasts for your viewing. Let’s get started.
Create a Bucket
After logging in to your Cosmic account, create a new bucket. After creating your new bucket, you will be prompted to install an app.
Install an App
Let's go ahead and install an app, but you could just as easily skip this step and deploy your own application pointed to your Cosmic bucket. After installing your app, you will be prompted to deploy the application.
Deploy the App
Next click "Deploy Web App" to launch the web application to http://[your-bucket-slug].cosmicapp.co. Once you do this it will take about a minute for the application to deploy on a custom instance of the Cosmic app server. While this is working its magic, let's add our custom domains…
Add Custom Domains
The Cosmic app server subdomain is great for development and staging, but when you go live, you're going to want to add our own custom domains. Cosmic makes this incredibly easy by providing the option to add custom domains to your deployed application. Here are the 4 easy steps:
1. Go to Settings > Deploy Web App > Add Custom Domains (upgrade your account if needed)
2. Add your custom domains
3. Click "Set Domains"
4. Go to your domain name registrar's website and point your A Name Records to the Cosmic app server located at 162.243.13.186
Now navigate to your domain and notice that you now have your application hosted at your custom domain! Add as many domains / subdomains as you need! Whenever you need to deploy changes to the app, just push the changes up to your GitHub repository and click "Redeploy Web App".
Cosmic now gives you the power to deploy a website faster and more nimbly than any other system. And all you need is a git repository, a domain name provider and Cosmic!
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