How can I redirect my domain to The Forge? Can I point my DNS record to a Forge game?

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Domains, Subdomains, and The Forge

On The Forge, each game/server is a subdomain of The Forge. That is to say, each game is encompassed by The Forge’s domain name.

We allow each user to set a custom subdomain for their game/server. If they are at the Game Master tier or have our Game Manager feature disabled, a user can set a single subdomain URL for their entire hosted Foundry VTT server. If a user has Game Manager enabled (a feature available at our Story Teller and higher tiers), they have a subdomain for each game.

In layman’s terms, its basically a unique URL you set for your Foundry VTT games/server. This lets you easily link to the game, as well as link your game to others.

Can I point my DNS to my Forge subdomain?

For both infrastructural and security reasons, we cannot support DNS A or CNAME records on our service. If you wish to link your players to The Forge via a custom domain of your own, we recommend a simple redirect (HTTP 301 response). Users can also set up a URI record directly, to redirect from a custom domain toward their game’s subdomain.

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Could it be possible to get an own Domain as a new price tier? All bells and whistles of using Forge but with a fully custom Url without the ugly Forge Infront?

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Hey there :slight_smile:

Because a lot of config is done on the domain level, Forge doesn’t support fully custom URLs.

A 301 redirect as suggested in the article above might be what you’re looking for, if you’d like a more custom URL to share.

You could also have a look at using the Forge client via the Forge: More Awesomeness module, which wouldn’t display the URL during play.

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The 301 redirect does not work because of to many redirects. To what url should the redirect go to work?

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Your own custom URL should return a 301 response which redirects to the Forge’s URL where your game is normally hosted at