All apps without SSL point to the same IP address, the IP address of our Routing Mesh. In order for the routing mesh to be able to route the request to the proper app, you must register the domain as a DNS alias under the DNS/SSL tab of your app dashboard. So if two of the sites in your app are appone.com and apptwo.com, you need to add both as DNS Aliases. This will allow the routing mesh to properly route the requests to your apps. Once the request hits your app, domain mapping will kick in and the corresponding site will load.

Thanks for the quick response!

The service I am building is similar to WordPress.com, where people can create blogs on the fly. They will, by default, be assigned a subdomain of my site (i.e. newblog.mysite.com).

However, I am also allowing users to point their own domains to their newly created blog. The way it currently is set up I will have to add each user's domain as an alias; I could potentially have hundreds of blogs being registered every week in the future so this needs to be automated.

I need my application to have a dedicated IP so when users point their domain to my server it loads the index page and then gets the requested URL and serves the appropriate blog to the user.

Right now, this process can’t be automated, but we will be releasing a public API in the future that will allow you to automate all the functionality in the dashboard. In the mean time, you’ll have to manually add all the domains that could potentially be routed to your app.

The IP provided in your app dashboard will not change. It is the static IP of our routing mesh (50.97.141.37). All requests to a Pagoda Box app without SSL will go to this IP. When you add SSL to a DNS Alias, that alias get’s a dedicated static IP, but that shouldn’t be necessary in this case.

Thanks for the info.

I added an SSL certificate so I have a dedicated static IP for my domain alias. But when I visit that IP address (rather than the domain) I get the "Hmmm, Unknown App" error.

Is there any way for this dedicated IP to route to the index of my application?

That’s because our routing mesh relies on the request URI to direct the request to the proper application. A raw IP can’t be routed correctly. It needs a DNS alias that has already been registered in the system.