I have a domain name with GoDaddy: example.com.
I want example.com to point to my front-end app on Netlify (currently doing so fine with the nameservers pointing to Netlify).
I have created a subdomain on GoDaddy, api.example.com. I want to point this to my back-end app on Heroku (currently working with Heroku’s free (and rather whacky) subdomain name.
I am struggling getting my subdomain on GoDaddy to point to my app on Heorku. The DNS Target given by Heroku is to be added into the DNS. But in GoDaddy, the DNS is unable to be managed because my nameservers are already pointing towards Netlify - and it is my assumption, I cannot point a subdomain to Heroku via Netlify (unless I’m mistaken). I have checked other answers on here, but none seem to face this problem of nameservers already pointing elsehwere.
I’m pretty new to this back-end deployment, so any help would be gratefully appreciated. Thank you in advance.
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I'm trying to point my GoDaddy domain to Heroku app. I followed the steps given here: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/custom-domains#add-a-custom-root-domain but I'm unable to access my Heroku app. Here are my DNS records settings:
Can someone tell me where I'm going wrong?
cname only allow you to point subdomain, so this case you should be able to see www subdomain pointed to Heroku, can you try to remove the A record.
I would recommend using DNS service like DNSimple/Cloudflare or in case you don't want to go out of Heroku you can try pointDNS
I have a domain registered on bluehost and Im trying to point the DNS to my heroku app. I have changed the www entry to the provided target. I also added the domain in heroku (once with the www and once without). The domain name is still responded to with the bluehost hosted app and not redirecting to the heroku instance. Please advise?
Please check if there is any A record.
Would like to learn how website works.
Purchased a domain name from bigrock domain registrar.
Am used to deploy applications to Heroku for my official websites.
But this is my personal site deployed to Heroku.
But how to connect my domain name to heroku ?
Heroku documentation is not clear to me.
I tried domain forwarding after playing with google search, but my site http://www.prithvibhargav.com/ is still giving me blank page.
Where as the heroku default website address still works
http://afternoon-cove-8287.herokuapp.com/
How to make my domain name to connect to heroku and work ?
There are so many terminoliges people use which is confusing
CName , A address, 301 redirect, domain forwarding
Which one to choose ?
You need to set your DNS to point to your heroku address. You should be able to go into the DNS settings in bigrock (where you registered the domain) and create CName record that will forward from your domain (http://www.prithvibhargav.com) to the heroku address (http://afternoon-cove-8287.herokuapp.com/)
I have purchased a domain from hetzner. Currently my application is running on my heroku account. My question ist. How to redirect the domain from hertzner to my heroku application. I can only use these records:
I really appreciate your answers, cause I really have no idea where to start!
PS.: I can only use the DNS records because I have only aquired a domain and therefore the panel http://myaccount.hetzner.co.za is not available for me ;(
This Heroku Dev Center article has many answers regarding DNS:
Heroku DevCenter: Custom Domains
In short: you want any apex domain (mydomain.com) to forward to a subdomain (typically www.mydomain.com), and then CNAME the subdomain to your Heroku app.
mydomain FORWARD www.mydomain.com
www.mydomain.com CNAME something.herokuapp.com
(tried on Server fault, so going to try here)
Hi I recently setup my octopress blog at http://davidmjohnson.me. This domain works fine, but when I try http://www.davidmjohnson.me I get a "heroku no app found." Why is the www not working. Would really appreciate an explanation. I bought my domain name at dnsimple. Do I need to add a redirect from "http://www.dav..." to just "http://dav..." ?
Thanks
I'm guessing you need to configure this domain (and any subdomain) in the heroku CLI application (equiv. of ssh-ing into the machine and changing the nginx/apache location/virtualhost configuration).
I see they have an entry about this in their reference:
https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/custom-domains
To elaborate a bit from the documentation:
Subdomains ( www.mydomain.com)
For each subdomain you want to setup configure your DNS provider using
a CNAME record pointing the subdomain to the applicable Heroku
hostname.
If the app is on Cedar, then CNAME the subdomain to myapp.herokuapp.com
If Bamboo, then myapp.heroku.com
In DNSimple a CNAME
record entry for a Cedar app would look like:
You can confirm that your DNS is configured correctly with the host
command:
$ host www.example.com
www.example.com is an alias for myapp.herokuapp.com.
myapp.herokuapp.com is an alias for ar.herokuapp.com.
ar.herokuapp.com is an alias for argon-stack-1879049447.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com.
argon-stack-1879049447.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com has address 107.20.157.144
...
Actually, it should really be the other way around. It is much better practice to point CNAMEs at Heroku apps, since Heroku apps have no real "static" IP. Since naked domains need an A-record, pointing a naked domain to a Heroku app makes everything much less stable. So the best practice is to forward your naked domain to a "www" subdomain, and then point the "www" CNAME to your Heroku app.
Heroku goes into detail about this here.