Point Root Domain To a Dashboard

February 28, 2025

Overview

This guide explains how to modify your Traefik configuration to point your root domain to a Homelab dashboard (e.g. Organizr, Homepage, Homarr, Dashy, etc.), allowing you to access a dashboard directly from your domain name without needing the subdomain prefix (e.g. organizr.domain.com).

In this document, Organizr is used as an example bit it applies to any dashboard or even a website. In fact, simplehomelab.com and deployarr.app are both configured this way.

Original Deployrr Created Configuration

http:
  routers:
    organizr-rtr:
      rule: "Host(`organizr.{{env "DOMAINNAME_1"}}`)"
      entryPoints:
        - websecure-external
        - websecure-internal
      middlewares:
        - chain-no-auth
      service: organizr-svc
      tls:
        certResolver: dns-cloudflare
        options: tls-opts@file
services:
  organizr-svc:
    loadBalancer:
      servers:
        - url: "http://10.0.0.101:83/" # http://IP-ADDRESS:PORT

Solution

To point the root domain (with or without www) to Organizr, you need to modify the router rule to include your base domain.

      rule: "Host(`organizr.{{env "DOMAINNAME_1"}}`)"

There are several approaches depending on what you want:

Option 1: Root domain and www subdomain only

rule: "Host(`{{env "DOMAINNAME_1"}}`) || Host(`www.{{env "DOMAINNAME_1"}}`)"

Option 2: Keep organizr subdomain and add root domain and www

rule: "Host(`organizr.{{env "DOMAINNAME_1"}}`) || Host(`{{env "DOMAINNAME_1"}}`) || Host(`www.{{env "DOMAINNAME_1"}}`)"

Implementation

1. Open your Traefik file provider configuration for Organizr (should be in the rules folder)
2. Locate the router rule section
3. Replace the existing rule with one of the options above
4. The change is effective immediately without needing to restart Traefik (file providers are dynamic)

Source

This solution was compiled from a community discussion on Discord.