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Using a Custom Host

If you’re using an aggressive Content Security Policy (CSP), or simply want as many assets to be routed through your domain as possible, you may want to proxy all JamComments assets and comment requests through a custom host. Do not do this unless you have an appropriate URL rewrite in place. If you enable this feature before then, the JamComments form will not function on your site.

Setting a Custom Host

In the JamComments admin, navigate to your site and scroll down to the “Custom Host” section.

custom host in the JamComments admin

In the form, enter a host through which you’d like to serve assets and submit requests. Hosts with paths are valid too. For example, all of these will work:

  • your-site.com
  • blog.your-site.com
  • your-site.com/some/path

Saving the form will trigger a rebuild of your site (assuming you have a webhook set up), so be sure to have your rewrite in place.

Setting Up a Rewrite

It’ll look a bit different depending on your platform: