Hi I'm trying to set up Sandstorm on my digitalocean droplet I have the domain name Tiff. Tech and I want to use that with sandstorm but I don't want to use a wildcard with tiff. Tech I want to use droplet.tiff.tech and then have it set up on *.droplet.tiff.tech as I am already using an A record for tiff . tech, www.tiff.tech, home.tiff.tech, and server.tiff.tech can this be accomplished if so how would I set it up in DNS. Basically right now I have a physical server that I use as a personal mail server it's set up with mail in a box so it's actually its own name server and I have no real control over the DNS record that uses but I can add custom ones any help much appreciated thanks in advance
I'm slightly confused on what you really want, I'll just say that you cannot have a sub-domain within a sub-domain, that's not how it works. You have to follow it's rules like so:
domain: www.domain.com
sub-domain: www.sub.domain.com
No more, no less. Also tell us what web engine you are using (apache, nginx, etc.) so we can help you, cause you may need to edit some configs to make it redirect to where you want it to.
Well I'm not using anything yet I have a physical server it's running mailinabox on Ubuntu 14.04 that is also my DNS name server as mailinabox handles all DNS records for the email server I can add custom records to what is already there but I can't modify what it is using I have a domain which is what my mail in a box server is using the domain is tiff.tech I would like to use subdomains that I am not already using for my sandstorm server which I plan to put on a digital ocean VPS droplet but when reading about sandstorm I discovered that's some sort of wildcard DNS record would have to be used which I don't believe is possible where's mailinabox having such control over my DNS but other than that I really like mailinabox it's the only solution that I have been able to configure that doesn't send my email straight to the spam folder so if there's a way to set Sandstorm up without *. tiff.tech please let me know
Hmm, well you can configure sandstorm to use a specific sub-domain, check it out here: https://docs.sandstorm.io/en/latest/administering/wildcard/
Apparently since I haven't delved into sandstorm as much that I cannot give you advance pointers on how to reverse engineer their system. However I believe that this is enough to get things working even if you use a *.tiff.tech.
If this is insufficient then I suggest using a different email service similar to mailinabox, like iredmail.
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