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Metabase Up and Running

You're reading from  Metabase Up and Running

Product type Book
Published in Sep 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800202313
Pages 332 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Tim Abraham Tim Abraham
Profile icon Tim Abraham

Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface 1. Section 1: Installing and Deploying Metabase
2. Chapter 1: Overview of Metabase 3. Chapter 2: Deploying Metabase with AWS 4. Section 2: Setting Up Your Instance and Asking Questions of Your Data
5. Chapter 3: Setting Up Metabase 6. Chapter 4: Connecting to Databases 7. Chapter 5: Building Your Data Model 8. Chapter 6: Creating Questions 9. Chapter 7: Creating Visualizations 10. Chapter 8: Creating Dashboards, Pulses, and Collections 11. Chapter 9: Using the SQL Console 12. Section 3: Advanced Functionality and Paid Features
13. Chapter 10: Advanced Features, Getting Help, and Contributing 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using a subdomain

At this point, our Metabase instance is hosted at a subdomain of elasticbeanstalk.com. It works just fine, and we could absolutely start handing it out to other people in our organization. However, many people prefer using a subdomain to host their Metabase instance. If your domain is mydomain.com, a subdomain is something like subdomain.mydomain.com. A common subdomain pattern I've seen people use for Metabase is metabase.mydomain.com, which is a lot easier to remember, shorter, and looks more official. With a subdomain, our Metabase instance will still live at the elasticbeanstalk.com URL, but our subdomain will act as an alias for that URL.

Let's learn how to use a subdomain and create an alias for it.

First, you will have to log in to your DNS provider. Once you are logged in to your DNS provider, you will want to create an ALIAS record. An ALIAS record simply lets you point a subdomain to an external domain name (the elasticbeanstalk.com domain...

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