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You can reserve a domain name so that it will never be assigned to another user, even if your tunnel is offline. You can reserve a subdomain of the form sub.loclx.io or a totally custom domain like example.com.

Usage

Reserve a subdomain

loclx domain reserve --subdomain dev

This will reserve the domain dev.loclx.io if you want to reserve in another region you need to pass --region ap for example then the final domain will be dev.ap.loclx.io.

Note that we advise to only reserve first-level subdomains like dev.loclx.io, to avoid TLS issues.

For example reserving my.dev.loclx.io may result in TLS warnings when users access it on different devices.

You always have the option of using your own custom tunnel domain instead of loclx.io.

Reserve a custom domain

loclx domain reserve --domain example.com --region ap

The command above will reserve example.com and it will return a DNS record that you need to add in your domain DNS settings. See the Create a Custom Domain Name (opens in a new tab) tutorial for more information.

One of the two flags --subdomain or --domain is required (but not both!)

Check if you configured your DNS correctly

loclx domain status --domain example.com

This command will check your DNS if configured correctly, it may take time to see your domain as verified due to DNS propagation (opens in a new tab) time.

Create a Let's Encrypt certificate

Create a Let's Encrypt certificates for your reserved custom domain is simple with LocalXpose, you just need to run:

loclx domain letsencrypt --domain example.com

This will create a Let's Encrypt certificate and store it in your machine, then you can use the generated certificate in your TLS (opens in a new tab) tunnel.

Please make sure of the following:

There is no running tunnel using the domain for which you want to issue a certificate
The port 54538 is free.

Creating a Let's Encrypt certificate by hand is mostly useful for management of TLS tunnels. The HTTP tunnel command will automatically generate the certificate for you (and handle the renewal too.)

Wildcard custom domain

You can reserve a wildcard custom domain by doing

loclx domain reserve --domain '*.example.com'

Then you can start an HTTP/S or TLS tunnel with this reserved wildcard domain by running:

loclx tunnel http --reserved-domain '*.example.com` # or 'anything.example.com`

Read more about wildcard tunnel certs to create a wildcard cert for tunnels.

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