Currently we do not allow external URLs to be mapped to applications. We did demo this functionality with FunctionSource during the demo, so technically it is there and we will be exploring relationships with developers and users of the system in the interim on a case by case basis.

Would be good to have this feature available asap, otherwise we'd likely to use cloudfoundry in development and testing but not in production, for the simple reason that we cannot use our own domain name or subdomains. 

Is there any documentation on how to use the external URLs feature on a local cloud foundry?

There a two items you need to do for allowing external URIs.

1. Update the CloudController configuration..

allow_external_app_uris: true

# This dicatates what the uri namespace rules

# are for apps. Admins can overide any of the

# below accept taking a used uri.

app_uris:

  allow_external: true

I'm sorry, but are you saying that I can't use an external URL to point to a deployed app in CloudFoundry ? 

what's the point then ? As Chen Wang said, we would not be able to use it as a production App.

Thanks.

I guess the point is for a developers to get familiar with CloudFoundry, without having to do any configuration them selfs.

To see how easy it is to use, deploy/un-deploy, upscale/downscale and to see how it works with your application. 

I you then want to use it for a production environment, you ether set it up your self, (trust me, it's so simple that you won't beleve it. And i mean, you won't beleve it) or by a CloudFoundry service at a hosting company... 

CloudFoundry.com is still en beta, so we should all take a deep breath, but i agree, that until we can use external url's, and smtp it can not be used for more than testing..

On the other hand, by releasing it in beta now, we are able to get to know CloudFoundry in it's new form, and we are able to create more implementations for frameworks which is yet to be supported.. :o)

Happy testing to all, and i think the new and improved CloudFoundry server is going to be great... :o) 

I know, I've got to know CloudFoundry, I definitely like it. But the fact that I can't use external URLs, is a big downsize for me. (yes, I understand it is still beta,, etc, etc, etc).

What I wonder is how the guys at FunctionSource  did it ? I certainly started my development on the fact that an external URL could be used, like FunctionSource did. But it's not until now, when I'm almost halfway done, that I find out it's not really possible to use external URLs.

I'm sorry, CF is great,  looks very promising, but this URL thing, makes me opt for other clouds instead.

Thank you

Fede.

Federico,

We are glad you like Cloud Foundry, we will open up external URIs as soon as we can. We hope you come back when we are ready. You can set up a private instance of CF on your own that will allow them for now, but this is obviously up to you..

External URL access is certainly a production requirement.  My understanding is that cloudfoundry.com is not primarily intended to be a production hosting offering.  There will be other providers like RackSpace and such that offer CF as an offering, and they certainly will offer external URLs.  If your time frame is not the immediate future I would still recommend using it.  You can always host it yourself on AWS until a monitored offering is available.  I would check with the vendors that are active in the community to see what their timeline is for production offerings.

Hi

+1 for the feature

i think that way we can make our application run in production which wil make you better test the platform and see how it will work in the real world with real applications instead of the helloworld apps currently developers are testing

no one will invest time if he cannot make his application to production

thanks 

Joe

There may downside if open this feature, especially the operation team is not ready... I am just curious and have some question to ask, to both CF team and the beta users: 

1. to CF team, is the hardware ready enough, to serve millions of requests for possible traffic when any heavy load production app is running?
2. to beta users: are you ready to pay (I suspect it won't be totally free when you have thousands of requests per second) and how much you want to pay? 

My answer is,  I have very tiny app need external url support asap, I don't want to pay it now, however this foundation looks good, I wouldn't mind pay reasonable money if my app is scaling up. I have to pay Amazon several dollars a month anyway, and wouldn't mind give CF a try. 

+1 for this feature.

+1 for the feature and a new question. Is there a release plan or any schedule when CF will be avaiable "completly"?

+1 for this feature.  If there is no schedule avaiable, can someone post a list of the vendors as mentioned by Michael Latta above?

+1 for this feature.

+1 for this feature.

It's been over 5 months since this (most popular) request. Can someone from CF give an update and/or possible timeline for this? Thanks!

Is this feature coming by the end of October?  If it's not, I'm going to have to move my project onto another cloud service.

An emphatic +1 for this feature

+1

:(

Charles,

In your post on September 26 you said this feature would be coming within the next couple of weeks.  How many more weeks are we looking at here?  Is this going to be in by the end of November/December/January?

+1 for this feature.

Quick question, is this something that you don't WANT to happen, or if someone could figure out a way to do it to their own satisfaction then you'd be okay with it...I always love problem solving!  SQUIRREL!

:D

+1 please support this feature, thanks! So far, been very happy with CloudFoundry experience performance-wisse and ease of deployment.

I thought I had an error with GoDaddy until I found this thread. Please make us all happy CF :)

By all means James, share away. I initially thought of doing a static host with an iframe. send it on allandx [at] gmail .... much appreciated 

+ 1 for this feature. without it, CF only good for development, not even for demo.

Used the iframe approach in my personal site http://www.mvergel.com , hosted at Google app engine with my cloud foundry site iframe-ed. Any alternative?

For more pretty demos I have used an HAProxy instance in front of the CF hosted site with some tweaks.  It works quite well if configured right, still I want a fully supported CF solution, and some way of paying for more resource :D

PUHHHHHLEEEEZE

James, thank you for the idea. I made quick tutorial in http://programming.mvergel.com/2011/11/cloud-foundry-and-custom-domain.html

In summary, you can use GAE and BS2 GAE Reverse Proxy (it's very easy). I switched to this approach, and so far so good. Much better than the lousy iframe.

No worries.  I am impressed that a GAE Reverse proxy worked so well.   I had to wrangle some headers with haproxy to make it work.

No worries.  I am impressed that a GAE Reverse proxy worked so well.   I had to wrangle some headers with haproxy to make it work.

...grr double post, sorry folks.

Hi James,

Could you share your HAProxy configuration?

Thanks

Cheers

+1 for this.

+1

suggested reverse proxy things working good but are only temporary solutions ..

we need this official support from CF

+1 for this..

Any idea when this is coming?  Can someone from Cloud Foundry please comment on what is holding this feature up?

+1. Any progress?

+1

Thanks for the update Mark. With the great node.js support you guys have, I'd really prefer to use CloudFoundry over any other service. Been waiting on the custom domain feature for a couple months...I'm not going to be releasing to production for about 2 months, but it would be extremely useful to have this feature available as soon as possible. 

+1

Does that mean we can't do private cloud ?

+1

Any timelines decided as when this feature will be up ?

Hi there... I tried to do the Mannys way to get my own URL to point to the cloudfoundry url... and I make it work. My problem is that ma webapp is putting the jsessionid in hte url so, all the links are broken when I enter throw the www.something.com url. can someone help me please!!!!

Its very urgent!

I think I found the problem, is an encoding problem.... when I enter to the custom url www.some.com the Tomcat server on the cloud foundry generates the jsessionid variable on the url. Like this --> http://www.some.com/login.html;jsessionid=94B514CC3052E86CBB3492ADD...

But in the page you can see an error like this -->

HTTP Status 404 - /login.html%3Bjsessionid%3D94B514CC3052E86CBB3492ADD0D33053

type Status report

message /login.html%3Bjsessionid%3D94B514CC3052E86CBB3492ADD0D33053

description The requested resource (/login.html%3Bjsessionid%3D94B514CC3052E86CBB3492ADD0D33053) is not available.
Apache Tomcat/6.0.35

So, do you have any idea how is the ; and / changing on GAE proxy? how I change the encoding on the GAE?

+1 

Any details regarding when this feature is scheduled to be released?

Hello all,  is this still an issue?  I have been able to configure CF to respond correctly and internally to *.mycompany.com (api.mycompany.com and <app>.mycompany.com).  If you'd like I can post how I did it (given my boss' ok).   What I haven't been able to do (and I haven't dug through the code yet) is configure it for a subdomain.  I'd like to be able to do *.cf.mycompany.com

@Rob Mitchell

Just to be clear, I would like to see how a www.mydomain.com can be bound to app.cloudfoundry.com (not to a locally running Micro CF)

misunderstood - sorry....