Custom Domains - How!

I'll describe how Ente's ability to serve your albums from your own domains is implemented behind the scenes.

The first thing you need to do is tell Ente that you want to associate a domain with your account. When you link your domain, the client (your Ente app) lets museum (Ente's server) know.

Museum notes this down. We'll come to why later.

The second (and last!) thing you need to do is go to your DNS provider and add a CNAME record from your domain to my.ente.com. A CNAME record is like a pointer, when someone comes looking for your domain, your DNS provider will redirect them to my.ente.com.

Update: The original version of this post used my.ente.io as the CNAME target. That still works, but if you're setting up a custom domain today, point it to my.ente.com.

That's all you, as a user…