I have a bit of a DNS/Configuration issue. I don't know if SO is the proper stackexchange network to post this.
My Setup
I use Heroku for hosting and Cloudflare for DNS Management.
Domain Heroku Cloudflare DNS Settings
example.com example.herokuapp.com CNAME: example.com=>example.herokuapp.com
CNAME: www=>example.herokuapp.com
sd1.example.com sd1.herokuapp.com CNAME: sd1=>sd1.herokuapp.com
sd2.example.com sd2.herokuapp.com CNAME: sd2=>sd2.herokuapp.com
sdn.example.com sdn.herokuapp.com CNAME: sdn=>sdn.herokuapp.com
My Problem
I can access example.com and www.example.com from my browser but the subdomains are gives me Cloudflare error 502. On the Heroku settings page, I have added the domains to the app below is what I have
Domain Name DNS Target
sd1.example.com sd1.example.com.herokudns.com
sd2.example.com sd2.example.com.herokudns.com
sdn.example.com sdn.example.com.herokudns.com
I know i can use the herokudns or herokuapp for the CNAME but none of it is working.
Please help me find what I'm missing or doing wrong.
Related
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 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 have a heroku app which i want to point to www.infoxpression.in
I added the domain name on heroku and added CNAME record in my bigrock DNS management but it is not working...
Big rock DNS management records:
Heroku dashboard:
Am i doing it wrong?
To connect your heroku hosting to big rock domain,
You have to open your big rock domain account and in the DNS Management page add in the cname the host: www and in the point to: your heroku url And in the heroku page in the settings add three domains:
1 *.xyz.com
2: xyz.com
3. www.xyz.com
This is to point your domain name from heroku side
heroku domains:add example.com
heroku domains:add www.example.com
heroku domains:add *.example.com
This should work :) Check this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKGSGT7mSnQ&feature=youtu.be
Please make sure that your bigrock account has default nameservers
like in the image:
Domain registration >> Name Servers
Do the domain forwarding as well.
Domain forwarding >> Manage domain forwarding >> add new
sub-domain prefix = (leave it blank if you have no subdomain)
destination URL = http://www.yourdoamin.com
URL masking is off
However, it will take 24-48 hours for updating.
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 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