I am trying to set up my herokupapp with my custom domain name from Godaddy. I hav gone through the process of getting it wokring using a cname through cloudflare.
Everything is working. However, when I go to my site at example.com my browser changes the url to example.herokuapp.com.
Going to: http://www.example.com/ and www.example.com do work
I don't want this obviously, what am I doing wrong?
Don't use an A record for your root domain. Heroku doesn't provide static IP addresses, so whatever value you put there won't be valid for long.
Since you're using CloudFlare you should be able to set up a CNAME for your apex domain just like you did for your www subdomain. CloudFlare has a feature called CNAME flattening that should make a CNAME on your root domain work as expected.
Regarding your comment that the www subdomain started working, that's typical of DNS changes. They take time to propagate. Give it some time.
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Recently i have purchase domain from hostinger and using heroku hosting but some how my domain working only with www. when i try to access url like example.com it shows me hostinger page.
i have tried follwoing name as domain name in heroku custom domain setting.
www.example.com
example.com
*.example.com
and tried using dns target of above url in my hostinger domain setting in CANME but its still not working.
what should i put in hosts part of hostinger and where its should be exactly pointed to.
Please help me to solve the error...
I host my website on heroku and my domain is managed by google domains.
I have successfully linked my domain to my heroku app. However, to go to my website, people are forced to type the exact domain www.mywebsite.com . If someone just type mywebsite.com there is an http error.
I'm searching on both google & heroku docs but i don't find anything related to this . All info i found are about subdomains.
Any idea for redirecting all http/www typo to my www.mywebsite.com ?
At the core, keep in mind that example.com and www.example.com are 2 different hosts that can resolve to different IPs. Your DNS settings at Google Domains handles this. Either direct both of them to Heroku or simply direct "www" to Heroku via the CNAME record that they give you and then use Google Domains forwarding feature to forward all non-www traffic to www.example.com.
In the Synthetic records, choose Subdomain forward, fill # in Subdomain, then www.yourdomain.com in the Destination URL, also choose Forward path and then ADD
I am having trouble to set both my www.domain.org and domain.org to point to Heroku rails app.
I did a CNAME from www to www.example.org.herokudns.com.
it works fine and my www.example.org point to my example.herokuapp.com
Concerning https://example.org
Should I do a
CNAME from # to example.herokudns.com ?
ALIAS is only accepted for IPs with my domain provider..
I having trouble finding an answer in stackoverflow.
Should I use http://wwwizer.com/naked-domain-redirect ?
Do I have a solution without using a third party free service ?
For naked domain example.com you can use the forwarding functionality. If you have purchased domain from GoDaddy you can follow this:
Go to manage DNS and scroll down to forwarding section where you will see something like this:
You can choose https and forward to www.example.com. (You can also make your naked domain point to some other subdomain)
heroku domains:add example.com
heroku domains:add www.example.com
heroku domains:add *.example.com
This is to point your domain name from heroku side
Here is a youtube video to make it easier https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKGSGT7mSnQ&t=29s
Please let me know if this does work
I have been using openshift for quite some time. Since letsencrypt is in beta, I thought I gave it a try.
My current setup:
www.digrin.com is an alias to my openshift url - digrin-digrincom.rhcloud.com
digrin.com A tag points to wwwizer redirect service 174.129.25.170.
I have uploaded ssl certificates to openshift. It works fine on domain www.digrin.com. However since naked domain digrin.com points to wwwizer.com, it does not use https. I believe it is a problem. I want both domains (naked as well as www variant) to use https. Is it possible? I know wwwizer has some premium plan where it might be possible, but I would like a free version if possible.
If you don't know, I can not set cname for naked domain, so I had to use A tag to wwwizer, because openshift might change IP address.
Useful link:
How to use naked GoDaddy domain with OpenShift hosting?
If you are looking for a free (1 domain) service that redirects naked domains with valid SSL certificates. I moved from wwwizer to nakedssl to redirect to an Opensift server and it works fine.
Well first of all I had to generate ssl certificate for naked domain - digrin.com. I set temporarily A tag for digrin.com to openshift's ip and generated ssl certificate.
Now we have working certificate, but since A tag for digrin can not be set permanently, domain registrant must support naked domain redirect. More on this you can read here -> if you registrant does not support it, move to cloudfront (I will test cloudfront if my registrant will not add this feature within few months and will update this answer).
I have an website hosted on heroku. App url is like example.herokuapp.com
I bought domain with name www.example.com and on visiting this URL I pointed to example.herokuapp.com. This works fine however URL in browser changes to heroku app rather it should stay custom domain www.example.com
What configurations are required?
That suggests you're using domain forwarding at your DNS provider and not adding a CNAME entry to your domain pointing at example.herokuapp.com for the www host