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Creating a Domain Name

Function

This API is used to create a streaming domain name or ingest domain name. You can create up to 64 domain names.

Calling Method

For details, see Calling APIs.

Authorization Information

Each account has all the permissions required to call all APIs, but IAM users must be assigned the required permissions.

  • If you are using role/policy-based authorization, see Permissions Policies and Supported Actions for details on the required permissions.
  • If you are using identity policy-based authorization, the following identity policy-based permissions are required.

    Action

    Access Level

    Resource Type (*: required)

    Condition Key

    Alias

    Dependencies

    live:domain:createDomain

    Write

    -

    -

    -

    -

URI

POST /v1/{project_id}/domain

Table 1 Path Parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

project_id

Yes

String

Project ID. For details about how to obtain the project ID, see Obtaining a Project ID.

Request Parameters

Table 2 Request header parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

X-Auth-Token

No

String

User token. This parameter is mandatory when token authentication is used. The token can be obtained by calling the IAM API used to obtain a user token. The value of X-Subject-Token in the response header is the user token.

Authorization

No

String

Authentication information. This parameter is mandatory for AK/SK authentication.

X-Sdk-Date

No

String

Time when the request is sent. This parameter is mandatory for AK/SK authentication.

X-Project-Id

No

String

Project ID. This parameter is mandatory for AK/SK authentication.
Table 3 Request body parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

domain

Yes

String

Domain name.

domain_type

Yes

String

Domain name type.

  • pull: Streaming domain name

  • push: Ingest domain name

region

Yes

String

Live center to which a live streaming channel belongs.

service_area

No

String

Domain name acceleration area.

  • mainland_china: Chinese mainland

  • outside_mainland_china: Outside the Chinese mainland

  • global: Global acceleration

enterprise_project_id

No

String

Enterprise project ID

pull_protocol

No

String

Stream pull protocol supported by the domain name. This parameter is valid only when domain_type is set to pull.

  • flv_rtmp: FLV and RTMP

  • hls: HLS

If this parameter is not specified, FLV and RTMP are supported by default.

Response Parameters

Status code: 201

Table 4 Response body parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

domain

String

Domain name.

domain_type

String

Domain name type.

  • pull: Streaming domain name

  • push: Ingest domain name

domain_cname

String

CNAME record of the domain name.

region

String

Region where the origin server is

status

String

Status of the domain name.

create_time

String

Time when the domain name was created. The value is in the format of yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ssZ (UTC time).

status_describe

String

Status description.

service_area

String

Domain name acceleration area.

  • mainland_china: Chinese mainland

  • outside_mainland_china: Outside the Chinese mainland

  • global: Global acceleration

enterprise_project_id

String

Enterprise project ID

pull_protocol

String

Stream pull protocol supported by the domain name. This parameter is valid only when domain_type is set to pull.

  • flv_rtmp: FLV and RTMP

  • hls: HLS

Status code: 400

Table 5 Response body parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

error_code

String

Error Code

error_msg

String

Error description

Example Requests

Creates a streaming domain name. The domain name is play.example.com, an ingest domain name in CN North-Beijing4.

POST https://{endpoint}/v1/{project_id}/domain

{
  "domain" : "play.example.com",
  "domain_type" : "pull",
  "region" : "cn-north-4"
}

Example Responses

Status code: 201

Domain name created.

{
  "domain" : "play.example.com",
  "domain_type" : "pull",
  "domain_cname" : "play.example.com.c.cdnhwc3.com",
  "region" : "region1",
  "status" : "configuring",
  "create_time" : "2020-01-19T02:57:00Z"
}

Status code: 400

Incorrect parameter.

{
  "error_code" : "LIVE.100011001",
  "error_msg" : "Request Illegal"
}

Status Codes

Status Code

Description

201

Domain name created.

400

Incorrect parameter.

Error Codes

See Error Codes.

Parent topic: Domain Name Management