[Deployment Issue] - Self Signed Certificate and Appending Captain to Server Domain.

[TonyGibson]

Hi all!

I'm currently trying to deploy a SvelteKit application and my GitHub Actions workflow seems to be failing because it's using a self-signed Caprover certificate during the build process (first image)

During deploying I can see it's appending 'captain' to my domain like this: 'captain.buildershield.server.buildershield.com.au' whereas in the tutorial it appends his 'appname' to the domain like this: 'appname.domain.com'

I can access the domain buildershield.server.buildershield.com.au and the certificate is valid (screenshots of both domains below).

I have my A records set up for the server subdomain as so, as well as a * on the root and the domain is managed from Hostinger.

The end goal here is to have the same app (a customer specific safety portal) running on unique sub-domains for each user like this: user1.buildershield.com.au, user2.buildershield.com.au etc...

I'm completely stumped and any help is greatly appreciated :)

[maietta]

You have to overcome the default self signed certificate by enabling SSL for the full caprover hostname.

I don't know if the LetsEncrypt service will issue an SSL cert with hostnames multiple levels deep, but it's worth trying.

[TonyGibson]

Thanks @maietta! I'm looking at switching to an alternative like Render instead where I don't need to deal with these issues haha. Leaving it here in case anyone else runs into this issue.

[TonyGibson]

For full transparency, I'm not a devops guy and this was a tough intro to how hard deployment can be. Really appreciate everything that has been done in this space.

Quicl update: Deplpyed to Render in the time between this message and the previous - 5 minutes or so. Really simple, less control, way less of a headache for me as the devops noob I am haha.

[githubsaturn]

@TonyGibson

The first step is to fully set up your CapRover so that you can access your caprover dashboard using captain.maybe.somthing.com - have you done this step?

[githubsaturn]

I tried to access your domain, but I see a cloudflare error. So looks like you've jumped a few steps.