No "app" at all, just redirection

[gunar]

Hi, can this plugin be used to create a simple redirection even when there are no deployments for the app? I couldn't get it to work. It seems like without a deployment the nginx.conf file is not even created. Just wondering of there's an easier way to do it. Thank you.

[josegonzalez]

You could probably use the null builder and null scheduler to make a dummy app that only does redirection.

[gunar]

Thanks but that didn't seem to work. I'm still getting the default "Welcome to nginx" screen. Maybe I could use the nginx builder instead but I was hoping I didn't have to.

[josegonzalez]

Can you show what commands you ran and the output so I can see what its failing on?

[gunar]

Sure, here's an asciinema cast of me setting up dokku.gunar.uk -> google.com.

I've left that redirection open so you can see the results:

• https://dokku.gunar.uk — connection refused
• http://dokku.gunar.uk — welcome to nginx

Thanks for looking into this.

[josegonzalez]

You can probably get away with this by doing something similar to what I do for dokku pro:

# create the app
dokku apps:create test

# set the builder to the null builder, which does nothing
dokku builder:set test selected null

# set the scheduler to the null scheduler, which does nothing
dokku scheduler:set test selected null

# set the static-web-listener network property to something that won't point to anything locally
dokku network:set test static-web-listener 127.0.0.1:65535

# set the port map as desired for the port specified in your static-web-listener
dokku proxy:ports-set test http:80:65535

# set the domains desired
dokku domains:set test test.dokku.me

# build the site config
dokku proxy:build-config test

Hope that helps.