How to use custom domain for Shelley on exe.dev

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Recently, I’ve started using VM by exe.dev as my primary development setup. And they come up with Shelley Agent which you can access at your-vm.shelley.exe.xyz

But if you prefer to access it via a custom domain you can do so by proxying the request to port 9999

In my case, I’m using ngix but you can use any web server.

Here is my ngix config for your reference

server {
 listen 8000;
 listen [::]:8000;
 server_name shelley.example.com;

 location / {
 proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:9999;
 proxy_set_header Host $host;
 proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
 proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
 proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;

 # WebSocket / Vite HMR upgrade
 proxy_http_version 1.1;
 proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
 proxy_set_header Connection $connection_upgrade;
 proxy_read_timeout 86400;
 }
}

Just ask Shelley Agent to do it. And it can do it for you!

Shelley-Agent on AI Engineer Guide

How to use custom domain for Shelley on exe.dev