1.42. How to change Web GIS domain

Note

This functionality is available only to nextgis.com Premium users.

After you created a Web GIS you get a domain at nextgis.com, for example mywebgis.nextgis.com. You can rename it to something else, i.e. mywebgis2.nextgis.com by contacting support.

You can also change it to a subdomain under the domain of your organization, for example gis.example.com where example.com is the domain of your organization. We will use these two addresses in the examples below.

Note

You can’t use your organization domain itself (mycompany.com) as Web GIS domain. It is impossible to add CNAME record in the DNS zone root with most of the providers.

Follow these steps to change the domain name. The described actions are done by the system administrator of your company or another authorized person who has access to DNS records.

Step 1. Add DNS record to get HTTPS certificates

_acme-challenge.gis.example.com. CNAME _acme-challenge.nimbo.nextgis.net.

change gis.example.com in this record to the needed domain under the domain of your organization.

Check 1

Your system administrator needs to check that changes took effect. Use Dig.

Enter: _acme-challenge.gis.example.com.

Expected answer: CNAME (TTL and TARGET). TARGET must have the following value: _acme-challenge.nimbo.nextgis.net.

Give some time for DNS changes to take effect.

Step 2. Add DNS record 2 to redirect requests to Web GIS

gis.example.com. CNAME example.nextgis.com.

change gis.example.com to the needed domain under the domain of your organization, change example.nextgis.com to your Web GIS address at *.nextgis.com

Check 2

Your system administrator needs to check that changes took effect. Use Dig.

Enter: gis.example.com

Expected answer: CNAME (TTL and TARGET). TARGET must have the following value: mywebgis.nextgis.com.

Give some time for DNS changes to take an effect.

Step 3. Inform us

After both checks are successful, let us know at support@nextgis.com. Please use the following template:

  1. Your Web GIS URL: mywebgis.nextgis.com

  2. Domain you want to switch to: gis.example.com

We will finalize the setup and contact you when everything is ready.