Thursday, March 11, 2021

How to Link a Custom Domain to My Okta Tenant

 I have a developer tenant in Okta and would like to add a custom domain.  This should be possible, all I need is a few things:

  1. A Developer Okta tenant
  2. My own custom domain
  3. A certificate, which I will get by using Lets Encrypt

First, I read up on the Okta documentation:


Next, I had to get a certificate.  I'm running on Windows 10 so I followed these steps to obtain a certificate by running the Windows Subsystem for Linux.


I ran into a few issues with DNS on my Linux instance so I followed this article.  I also had to make sure I disabled my network security app temporarily so that it wouldn't mess up my TLS handshake.


NOTE: for the TXT records, I had to add just the subdomain names like this:



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