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Apologies if this is a silly question, but does the information about pointing your web app to a custom domain name also apply to suffixes of custom domains?

So in the example a top level "www.example.com" is shown - but what if I want to point my web app to "www.example.com/webapp" - is this also possible?

for that you would customise it within your python code / it wouldn't have anything to do with the dns cname stuff.

Thanks for the reply - do you mean that the suffix would just be set in the url.py as normal - so if a site url was set up as www.example.com, if the urls.py has an entry like:

url(r'^glossary.html$',views.glossary,name='glossary')

that would correctly open when www.example.com/glossary.html was visited?

Many thanks

Yes, that's right. DNS (which includes all of the CNAME stuff relating to custom domains) handles the stuff before the first slash -- just www.example.com in your example. The stuff after the slash is controlled entirely by your code -- the code in urls.py if you're using Django.

Thanks you very much for the info - I shall try to get it set up ;)