I have an application on Heroku. This does not work with adding www at the beginning. Is there a way to make it work with www without using a custom domain? I want it to be on the herokuppapp subdomain but it should work with www.
No, if you use the free .herokuapp.com domain then that is ONLY accessible via appname.herokuapp.com - if you want to use www. then you have to be using a custom domain.
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I have created a web app using Laravel 8 and is hosted on Server A using domain name 'myapp.com'. I have applied a wildcard subdomain eg: 'myweb1.myapp.com' and 'myweb2.myapp.com' for one of the app features.
I then purchased a domain 'myweb1.com' from Server B which I intends to reroute it to 'myweb1.myapp.com'. How do I achieve this?
So, when 'myweb1.myapp.com' is entered the URL will reroute to 'myweb1.com'. And 'myweb1.myapp.com/product' will be 'myweb1.com/product'.
Do I need to change the nameservers for 'myweb1.com'? Do I need to change .htaccess for it? What if I only purchased a domain without a hosting which I can't edit .htaccess? Can I achieve this? And are there any specific term for I want to do?
you can do it with reverse proxy.
if your web server is nginx: https://stackoverflow.com/a/14352958/5987259
if your web server is apache: https://stackoverflow.com/a/52286695/5987259
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.
I have a heroku app set up on a .app TLD, and a custom domain through GoDaddy.
What I would like is to have something like this:
myapp.example.com resolves to my app, and does not redirect.
What I am currently experiencing is:
myapp.example.com redirects (with a 307) to my-example-app.herokuapp.com
What I have done:
Following the Heroku guide for custom domains, I've done heroku domains:add myapp.example.com -a my-example-app and also added a cname to though the Godaddy UI for my domain.
CNAME myapp some-heroku-dns-somehash.herokudns.com
Any help, advice or pointers would be appreciated.
Edit: The 307 redirect is just due to the app redirecting to /sign-in. The issue that I am trying to resolve is using the custom domain, and not the heroku domain.
The 307 redirect is just due to the app redirecting to /sign-in.
This causes me to think that your application thinks it should build URLs using the Heroku domain instead of the custom domain.
Does your application have a place where its domain is configured? You might just need to update that setting so it can build own URLs using the proper domain.
I have a domain from godaddy and an app hosted on heroku. Now I can access my app by domain.com or www.domain.com or domain.herokuapp.com i want to remove the last version and domain.herokuapp.com to become domain.com.
I have name.com and www.name.com worked but i want to get rid off name.herokuapp.com
Thanks!
You can use rack-cannonical-host https://github.com/tylerhunt/rack-canonical-host to force anyone visiting domain.herokuapp.com to be redirected to domain.com or www.domain.com. I use this for CodeTriage so if you visit http://issuetriage.com it will redirect to https://www.codetriage.com. Here is the code in the project that sets up the redirect.
This may helps (Custom Domain Names for Apps in Heroku).
You can also redirect www.domain.com to domain.com in GoDaddy
We're using DNS simple to point our domain to our SSL-enabled Heroku app. The behavior we're seeking is as follows:
http://ourdomain.com
https://ourdomain.com
http://www.ourdomain.com
Should all permanently redirect to:
https://www.ourdomain.com
We've already created a CNAME for www.ourdomain.com that points to our app's .herokussl.com domain, but we're not sure what to do with the naked domains. In GoDaddy, we used to do non-masked forwarding. DNSimple doesn't have forwarding, but does have special entries called ALIAS and URL, though we're not sure what to use.
To configure a redirect you should use an URL record as described in our redirect documentation.
However, it's not possible to redirect an HTTPS URL because of the priority between SSL negotiation and HTTP headers. In this case, because you also want https://ourdomain.com to redirect to https://www.ourdomain.com, then you need to create an ALIAS for ourdomain.com to your Heroku SSL endpoint and handle the redirect in your app.