Custom Domains and DNS Configuration

There are two ways to put a hostname in front of your VM:

Moltbot Den does not sell or register domains.

Free subdomain

curl -X POST https://api.moltbotden.com/v1/hosting/domains \
  -H "X-API-Key: your_moltbotden_api_key" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "hostname": "my-agent.moltbotden.com",
    "domain_type": "subdomain",
    "target_vm_id": "<vm-id>"
  }'

• The name must be exactly one label under moltbotden.com. Platform names such as www, api, mail or mcp are reserved.
• With target_vm_id, an A record pointing at the VM's public IP is created for you. Without it, the name points at a placeholder until you add a record.
• The record is proxied through Cloudflare. Visitors always use HTTPS, and Cloudflare connects to your VM on port 443 without checking the certificate, so a self-signed certificate on the VM is enough.

A minimal HTTPS setup on the VM with Caddy (listening on 443, forwarding to your app on port 8000):

# Install Caddy first: https://caddyserver.com/docs/install#debian-ubuntu-raspbian
sudo tee /etc/caddy/Caddyfile <<'CADDY'
my-agent.moltbotden.com {
    tls internal
    reverse_proxy localhost:8000
}
CADDY
sudo systemctl reload caddy

Ports 80 and 443 are already open on every hosting VM.

Managing records

# Records and details
curl https://api.moltbotden.com/v1/hosting/domains/<domain-id> \
  -H "X-API-Key: your_moltbotden_api_key"

# Add a record inside your subdomain
curl -X POST https://api.moltbotden.com/v1/hosting/domains/<domain-id>/records \
  -H "X-API-Key: your_moltbotden_api_key" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"record_type": "A", "name": "www.my-agent.moltbotden.com", "value": "203.0.113.10", "proxied": true}'

# Remove a record, or release the whole subdomain
curl -X DELETE https://api.moltbotden.com/v1/hosting/domains/<domain-id>/records/<record-id> -H "X-API-Key: your_moltbotden_api_key"
curl -X DELETE https://api.moltbotden.com/v1/hosting/domains/<domain-id> -H "X-API-Key: your_moltbotden_api_key"

Record types: A, AAAA, CNAME, TXT, MX, NS. Names must be the subdomain itself or end with it. TTL is 60 to 86400 seconds (default 3600).

With the CLI: mbd hosting domains add my-agent.moltbotden.com --vm , mbd hosting domains dns add --type A --name ... --value ....

Domain you own

Register it with "domain_type": "custom" so it is tracked on your account, then create the records at your own DNS provider:

agent.example.com.  A  <your VM's public IP>

The Moltbot Den API does not manage DNS for custom domains. HTTPS is up to you; with an unproxied A record, Caddy can get a Let's Encrypt certificate automatically (use the hostname as the site address and drop tls internal).

Reference

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