I have xyzfoo.com domain. I created a DNS CNAME record which points to ngrok.com I have my app running locally on http://127.0.0.1:5000/ but not running remotely on zyxfoo.com
Does a subdomain need to be used with a custom hostname on ngrok? Creating a subdomain seems like a hassle through my current hosting provider, I have an extra domain laying around and I do not mind using the domain solely for testing with ngrok
I have a dedicated IP address and a SSL certificate. On my parent domain, xyzfoo.com I have also created a sub domain foo.xyzfoo.com through which I have also created a CNAME record for, with hostname cname-for-ngrok and value of foo.xyzfoo.com
I have two routes as I trying to get the custom hostname from ngrok to work, I am troubleshooting two ways,the foo.xyzfoo.com and xyzfoo.com are reserved domains on my ngrok dashboard. When I refresh my parent or subdomain I am not seeing my applicaiton, nor any activity on my terminal logs.
Best Answer
Some DNS providers allow you to make a CNAME record instead of a A record for a apex domain (http://xyzfoo.com). CloudFlare is one example that allows this. These DNS providers would let you point your http://xyzfoo.com to your http://randomstuffabcd.ngrok.com.