Custom subdomains return SSL errors

[jschlier]

Custom subdomains return SSL errors

[ukutaht]

@ukutaht Can I clarify then, does this mean the custom domain option should not be used for self hosted instances and therefore the /js/plausible.js script should be used instead of the index.js?

Yes

I will take a look at the BASE_URL issue

[mabasic]

Is there a way to make custom domains work with self hosted plausible?

I find this feature useful because instead of serving the js file from the domain of the plausible server, I could serve it from the domain of the actual website.

This way I don't have to setup a plausible application for each domain in order to get this behaviour.

[ukutaht]

Hey. Custom domains are not really supported in a self-hosted environment. For our cloud version we have a separate server that handles custom domains. I didn't see much reason to include it for self-hosters because you don't have problems with ad-blockers when self-hosting.

Can you give some details as to what you're trying to do?

[jschlier]

Ah, good to know. The option is there, therefore I kinda expected it to work.

We would not have any problems with ad-blockers if we were hosting on the same domain/server, that is true.

We have several websites across several servers/domains and figured we could host one instance of plausible on a dedicated server.
To collect the data from all domains we would like to use the custom subdomains that would redirect to our dedicated plausible server. Similar to what you are doing with the cloud version.

[ukutaht]

Gotcha. I don't believe there's any benefit in assigning custom domains for tracking purposes. You're already flying under the radar of all adblockers since your analytics server is a custom one. There should be no problem just using your self-hosted Plausible domain for all tracking across multiple websites.

We don't have any plans to support custom domains in the self-hosted context. I'll close this issue as wontfix. Please do let me know if you have any other feedback :)

[mannp]

@ukutaht Can I clarify then, does this mean the custom domain option should not be used for self hosted instances and therefore the /js/plausible.js script should be used instead of the index.js?

I ask as the plausible.js script seems to be borked and doesn't respect the BASE_URL -> #20

[mannp]

Thanks for the clarification and taking a look at the plausible script.

[ukutaht]

It's possible but not at the top of the priority list at the moment. Happy for people to contribute but there's just 1 of me, sorry. I'm currently focused on other features that many more people have requested.

[mabasic]

Happy to help with this. Can you give me some pointers on where to look?