General·HTTP 400·API, CLI, FE

Wildcard domain not valid

wildcard_invalid

A wildcard domain has to be written as a star, a dot and a domain name: for example *.example.com.

What this means

The name contains a star in another place, more than one star, or the part after the star is not a valid domain.

How to fix it

Write the wildcard as *. followed by the domain, with the star only at the start, and add it again.

Retry behavior

Sending the same name again gets the same answer.

How it appears in the response

ComputeSphere returns errors as RFC 7807 Problem Details. The type field is the docs URL for this page — switch on code in your client.

{
  "type":    "https://docs.computesphere.com/errors/wildcard_invalid",
  "title":   "Wildcard domain not valid",
  "status":  400,
  "code":    "wildcard_invalid",
  "detail":  "A wildcard domain has to be written as a star, a dot and a domain name: for example *.example.com.",
  "instance": "/v2/…",
  "request_id": "f47ac10b-58cc-4372-a567-0e02b2c3d479",
  "trace_id":   null
}

The Content-Type header is application/problem+json. On field-level validation errors a non-empty errors[] array also appears, each entry carrying its own docs_url for the offending field.

Related

• Custom domains