I have a Godaddy domain which I want to use for both my API's and website but with different domain and sub domain parameters.
Domain: www.testingstack.com
Sub Domain: www.api.testingstack.com
Both my api and website are built on 2 different platforms and deployed on Heroku.
I need to know the way to link the above domain and sub domain to my website and api independently.
In heroku dashboard, go to Settings and find Domains and Certificates
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I have deployed my application on Heroku and I have issues setting my custom domain name.
Here are my domains on Heroku :
Here are my targets set on OVH :
Still, I cannot access my website and the browser states that the website is not accessible with this error appended : DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN
There is a well written article on their site that outlines the steps:
Custom Domain Names for Apps
Also, an important part is that your account is verified:
You can add custom domains to any Heroku app . . . you must verify your Heroku account to add domains to apps.
Account Verification
My api.<base-url> subdomain is not configured correctly. I purchased a domain through AWS and hooked it up to my static website running on Netlify. To do this, I set up Route53 to use Netlify's Name Servers. This works fine for the apex domain and https://<base-url> sends me to the static site.
Image of the Route53 hosted zone for this domain
I also have a node instance running on Heroku which I want to be hosted at api.<base-url>. Currently it is accessible by the heroku provided url (<project-name>.herokuapp.com)
I added a custom domain to Heroku for the api subdomain of my Netlify site api.<base-url>, the result of my heroku domains command is:
➜ heroku domains
=== <project-name> Heroku Domain
<project-name>.herokuapp.com
=== <project-name> Custom Domains
Domain Name DNS Record Type DNS Target
api.<base-url> CNAME fitted-lemon-gzwby8exkguturnmh2emy5l4.herokudns.com
And I created a CNAME record on Route53 that points to this Heroku DNS target.
This sort of works, running host api.<base-url> gives:
➜ host api.<base-url>
api.<base-url> has address 104.248.60.43
api.<base-url> is an alias for <project-name>.herokuapp.com.
api.<base-url> is an alias for <project-name>.herokuapp.com.
So it is aliased to my heroku app, but when I go to api.<base-url> directly I get a white page that says 'Not Found', looks like this is on Netlify's side not Heroku? But I'm not sure. I feel like I need to tell Netlify somehow that there is a custom subdomain at api.<base-url> but the only thing I can find in the docs is setting up Netlify's subdomains from other branches of the project, not when a subdomain is hosted elsewhere.
Setting api<base-url> as a Netlify custom domain just ended up routing all the traffic for api.<base-url> to the static netlify site at <base-url> instead of my Heroku app.
I made a few other attempts but nothing has worked so far, I am officially stuck on this. Thank you in advance!
Found it! Figures that it would click 30 minutes after posting.
I had a CNAME on Route53 but this was useless since I was using the Netlify DNS. You'll need to create a CNAME on Netlify that points to the host Heroku gives you.
So my heroku domains gave me the host I needed the CNAME to point to. I created a CNAME record on Netlify - which was not very obvious, I had to click into the badge 'Netlify DNS' in order to find the config.
I was able to create the right CNAME and then have it all work after that.
I have an application where users get their own subdomain, like site1.mysite.example. I would like to allow users to register a custom domain that they can point to to their sub domain but I'm having trouble figuring how to configure Heroku and my DNS settings to allow this.
In my DNS settings for my domain I have a CNAME record setup like so:
Host = *
Value = sites.mysite.example
The value here is an app I have running which will translate the subdomain (site1.mysite.example) to figure out which site to load.
I have a CNAME for mysite.com which points to Heroku's DNS site:
Host = sites.mysite.example
Value = mysite.example.herokudns.com
On the domain I'm testing with I have a CNAME record setup like this:
Host = docs.othersite.example
Value = site1.mysite.example - this is the subdomain they get on my site
But for some reason this is not working. If I register site1.mysite.example as the custom domain in my application and I run dig site1.mysite.example I get the following:
;; ANSWER SECTION:
docs.othersite.example IN CNAME site1.mysite.example
site1.mysite.example IN CNAME sites.mysite.example
sites.mysite.example IN CNAME mysite.example.herokudns.com.
When I try docs.othersite.example in a browser I get Heroku's There's nothing here, yet. page. So it seems like Heroku is not loading up my application. I am guessing this is because I do not have docs.othersite.example registered as a domain in my Heroku application, but I do not want to have to register every custom domain. Also, I do not own these domains so I could not anyway.
What am I doing wrong here? Any help is much appreciated. I'm happy to post any more info someone needs or clarify anything.
Heroku does support wildcard domains, so in this case you could add *.othersite.example to your Heorku app's custom domains.
If you need to support different root domains (othersite2.example, othersite3.example) for each user, there's no easy way to support that. You'd need use Heroku's Platform API to programmatically manage custom domains.
I am trying to use my hostgator registered domain on my node.js application deployed through heroku.
I have added the domain to my heroku application through the custom domain feature, and when i type "Heroku Domains" in the console, it shows up with a target of: "photosbysalwa.com.herokudns.com" and a type of ALAIS or ANAME.
When I try to add an ANAME record through hostgator, I try to set the address to "photosbysalwa.com.herokudns.com" but it won't let me submit the record because it says the address must be an IP address.
If you could help me with how to get the domain pointed, that would be fantastic.
Check this video its about how to point your domain name to heroku hosting.
It have godaddy domain name and its the same way to hostgator I think
in the heroku page in the settings add three domains:
1 *.xyz.com
2: xyz.com
3. www.xyz.com
open your Hostgator account and in the DNS Management page add in the cname the host: www and in the point to: your heroku url
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKGSGT7mSnQ&t=9s
I believe this will solve your problem
Currently I have an app which gives my users a custom subdomain.
neat.coolapp.com
However, I want my users to be able to CNAME their personal domain to that website.
ex. hey.neat.com -> neat.coolapp.com
Is this possible on heroku?
Thanks in advance for any insight.
You'll need to add whatever domain the customer wants to use to your application so the correct application on Heroku responds - you could do this either manually (via the heroku control panel) or use the heroku gem within your application to add the domain to your application via some kind of control panel if the customer is able to add their own domains.
In regards to cname's - I would suggest setting up something like proxy.yourwebsite.com as a CNAME to yourapp.heroku.com and then you get your customers to cname their domain to proxy.yourwebsite.com in their DNS config.
When you sign up for Heroku you will get a subdomain like
asdf.heroku.com
If you have a domain like mywebsite.com you can cname mywebsite.com to asdf.heroku.com and you will need to add mywebsite.com to Heroku's custom domain command.
From there I'm not sure, if you wanted to add mywebsite2.com without having to add it using the custom domain command you can try to cname it to mywebsite.com, if you have two domains you can try it out.