I'm trying to do something pretty simple. I have a domain on godaddy. I want to use Azure Dns to host the domain and connect it to an azure website.
I have it working for www.mydomain.com with the CNAME approach. However I cannot get the root domain, i.e. my domain.com to work with this approach. I tried adding an * A record but that didn't work. I also tried to do CNAME with # but that didn't work either.
Does anyone know how to get the root domain to work? This seems pretty basic but there is no documentation and it is not obvious.
Thanks
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If you need to create the isolated deployment with the static IP, take a look at the Service Environment. The reference first and second.
As you mentioned Azure DNS, i assume that you refer to the Azure DNS service. If so, then it is possible if you have the needed access. Reference for the DNS zones.
Regarding your question about www and CNAME, there are some nuances that should be taken into account and set up. Please refer to that post.
You can set up a DNS 'A' record in Azure DNS to point to the IP address listed for the site in the Web Apps portal (as per the screenshot provided by an earlier answer). The Web Apps team provide the IP address for precisely this purpose, and they know that they can't change these IP addresses because DNS entries would break.
Note that there's no need to use a wildcard record (name = '*'). You should instead use an A record at the domain apex (name = '#', or if using the Azure Portal you can also leave the name blank).
If your hosted your WebAPP in free website plan didn't have any option for adding * A record. You have to Change your web App plan to at least Shared Plan instead of free Plan.
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I have deployed an app on Heroku, and everything is going great when the app is being accessed from the herokuapp.com domain. I tried adding a custom domain and have followed the instructions from the documentation, but unfortunately, I encounter a DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN error when trying to access the app from my custom domain.
Some articles pointed out how Heroku requires the usage of ALIAS ANAME or FLATTENING records, which may not be available in DNS providers. I am using a local DNS provider where Name Server configuration is not directly accessible, and only the DNS provider admin can configure it on my request, so I am unable to check the CNAME Records and such (probably because I use .id domain, which I believe to have a somewhat specific configuration due to its affiliation with the country Indonesia, could be wrong though).
For my Name Server, because my DNS Provider requires at least two different name servers, I registered the domains for my Heroku app (from the Heroku settings dashboard > add domain and from the CLI) as follows:
my-domain.id
*.my-domain.id
www.my-domain.id
Is there anything I can do to fix this? Any help would be highly appreciated! Thank you!
EDIT:
I have just been informed by my DNS provider admin that the name servers I used, which I got from Heroku ([haiku].herokudns.com) does not have IP address. Is there anything I did wrong on the configuration?
As it turns out I managed to find my own mistake! It turns out that I provided the DNS Target as Name Server to my provider, which is totally not the same thing. What solved my problem was simply asking the provider to register a CNAME with the DNS target from Heroku as the value.
Be sure to provide the correct DNS Target for the domains as the DNS Target produced for registering root domains like your-domain.com will be different from the DNS Target produced for registering subdomains like www.your-domain.com or when using wildcard tag (*.your-domain.com). Also, note that Heroku doesn't recommend the usage of A Record for root domains, so be sure that your DNS Provider supports the record types needed as this Heroku article suggests.
Thank you #Ruurtjan Pul for getting in touch! Hope this helps!
I have an application running on example.herokuapp.com. No subdomains, no HTTPS, just a basic, read-only application. I also bought my domain name example.com from name.com. How do I link my domain name to the Heroku app?
I found these two questions, but I can't understand them, don't have any idea what DNS, CNAME, A records etc. are..
How to configure DNS records for Name.com and a Heroku app
How to connect my domain bought on name.com with my herokuapp?
I would appreciate a dummy-friendly explanation on how to setup my domain name with my Heroku app.
From this page I understand (guess) I need to use an additional service such as DNSimple or CloudFlare, is this correct? I tried CloudFlare but there is an additional problem that my domain is already linked to 000webhost.com (which I want to remove) via name.com. Anyways, please just tell me what do I need to have in the end :) Also I prefer to use only the free plans, if possible.
Thanks in advance
We have a hosted website that uses Cloudflare to improve website speed performance and load times. As such, the DNS details for the site currently include:
-MX records leading to the hosting provider for emails.
-CNAME record for the hostname to be routed via Cloudflare for website performance
We recently decided that we wished to move our email mailboxes from the hosting provider to Microsoft Exchange. However, Microsoft has advised that as part of the migration process, we need to create a CNAME record in CloudFlare to allow for autoconfiguration of Microsoft Outlook to pickup mailbox settings associated with the hostname. However, CloudFlare only allows for 1 CNAME to exist which is currently used to route website traffic via CloudFlare.
Question: I don't want to get rid of CloudFlare services by changing the CNAME record to point to Microsoft's outlook configuration address for Exchange. Is there anyway that I can create an additional CNAME record? I came across CNAME flattening but i'm not sure if it would be applicable in this scenario or what the steps would be to implement it. This surely can't be the first time someone has wanted to have their website traffic routed via Cloudflare but their hostname also to be used for Microsoft Exchange email.
I'm hoping there is some creating way around it, even if it's creating a subdomain (e.g. traffic.domain.com) which one CNAME can route web traffic to CloudFlare to while another subdomain (mail.domain.com) has a CNAME to route to Microsoft's outlook autoconfig.
Any help or advice would be appreciated.
Please open a support ticket and we can assist. If we are managing your DNS fully, there is no limitation to the number of CNAMES in settings. You should still be able to put a CNAME in your DNS settings pointing to Microsoft.
I am hosting my website on a servce (open shift, heroku, ect) that doesn't give you a static ip. How do I point my free .tk domain to it. I set up my web site service to accept it, however, .tk domains only allow you to point to a static ip, not domain name. It has a custom dns service but am not sure how to do this. Could you please give a quick explanation. If I need a dns, please tell if there are any free service will fit the bill. Thanks for all the help.
#siamii, I did it with a cname. After creating your .tk domain, go to the domain panel and click modify domain. On the list of options using the mydottk free domain service (The default option) add a new cname. The cname should be structered as, Host domain www.[YourDomainHere].tk and Ip Address: [your heroku web site address]. Now go to your app on heroku.com and go to domain settings on your app's settings page. Add your www.[YourDomainHere].tk to that setting and you should be good to go.
Note: You cannot point a top level( [YourDomainHere].tk) domain to heroku with the mydottk free domain service. The primary way you do this is to redirect from [YourDomainHere].tk to www.[YourDomainHere].tk but the free domain service cannot do that.
cname is the way to go; see our blog on how this can be done.
https://www.openshift.com/blogs/custom-url-names-for-your-paas-applications-host-forwarding-and-cnames-the-openshift-way
Hi I am having my own domain mydomain.ac.in and i am having my own server (windows 2008) and a Public static IP.
Now i want to host my site in my own server.
Please give me the step by step information to get it done.
Thanks.
You need to register your domain with some DNS hosting service (DNS provider), there is such an astronomic number of these on the web that I do not want to spam the site. Google.
Also, collocation center where you keep this server (and from where you have probably obtained that public IP) may also provide DNS services.
From the other side, any computer can be configured as the name server but this will probably not work Internet wide and can be used inside the local network only (combined with DHCP service). If there is an easy way to make this Internet wide, I would also be very interested in, but I doubt.
Your operating system is not much relevant to this question.
I registered my domain already in ernet by indian Government and I got my Public Static IP from BSNL India. I hosted my site already and i am able to access my site already using the ip. Now i want to map my domain with the server that i have so that i can access my domain using a domain name.
I tried the steps in http://www.hosting.com/support/dedicated/dns/setdns#additional.. But when i add the name server information it says cannot resolve hostname??? that s why i want to know where i am making mistake..
I once again tried the steps at http://www.hosting.com/support/dedicated/dns/setdns and got it right..Now i have updated the name server info at my domain registrar ernet and waiting for it to be updated. Thanks fo the people helped me