Applying for *.domain.com

ray_cho · 2014-03-18T19:58:10.000Z

How do I apply for a wildcard subdomain? I requested approval for http://qaugc.bk-views.com and it was approved but when I try a different subdomain it doesn’t work. I need http://*.bk-views.com to work for Twitter Cards. Please let me know what I need to do to get approved. Thanks!

aaronhoff · 2014-03-21T21:14:48.000Z

Hi Rachel, You should submit the root domain (format e.g., *.testdomain.com) in order to incorporate subdomains. Please feel free to resubmit through the cards validator in this format. If you continue to experience issues you can log a ticket at https://support.twitter.com/forms/platform
-Aaron

muraldevagascom · 2014-05-08T01:03:03.000Z

How should I submit the root domain, Aaron? Thanks a lot!

aaronhoff · 2014-05-08T23:17:02.000Z

You can submit your root domain through the cards validator tool at https://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards/validation/validator

gmathis_p · 2015-08-05T21:53:12.594Z

Has the validator changed in this regard since this post?

The current validator appears to require a valid URL in order to fetch meta tags and present the “Request whitelisting” button. Entering wildcards (e.g. *.mycompany.com) or root domains (e.g. mycompany.com, where implementation is actually at domain1.mycompany.com and domain2.mycompany.com) just gives an error (“ERROR: Fetching the page failed […]”) due to being an invalid URL.

We are currently whitelisted at something like “testing.mycompany.com”, and would like to extend that to production at, e.g. “*.cloud.mycompany.com”.

How can we go about doing this?

Thanks!