We purchased and installed an SSL Certificate on our Heroku app, and install the SSL endpoint. The domain is using nameservers that point to a separate cPanel hosting account. I have tried to add a CNAME record in cPanel that points to our Heroku secure endpoint.
I setup the CNAME like this:
Name: *.domain.com.
Type: CNAME
Record: example-7245.herokussl.com
But is has been a whole day and the url still doesn't to heroku. Is this even possible to do this way? We need the email to run off the cpanel host so if we could just use a cname record for the domain server it was perfect.
Thanks for any help.
Not sure why but when I added the DNS add-on Zerigo DNS Zerigo Tier 1, it started to work.
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My heroku app is not linking to my godaddy custom domain
I've tried changing the cname to host to "www" and the "points to" to the heroku dns target I was given. Still it has not worked. I've also tried putting the url of the heroku app:
https://agile-thicket-51202.herokuapp.com/
I've tried the forwarding settings in godaddy as well but was unsuccessful.
(My custom domain has already been verified on heroku)
This is how it appears on my godaddy dns settings:
CNAME www "herokudnstarget"
Could other dns settings be interfering with this?
While working with cname GoDaddy only allows you to point www subdomain.For naked domain pointing use cloudflare or heroku add-on pointDNS.
I'm trying to point my GoDaddy domain to Heroku app. I followed the steps given here: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/custom-domains#add-a-custom-root-domain but I'm unable to access my Heroku app. Here are my DNS records settings:
Can someone tell me where I'm going wrong?
cname only allow you to point subdomain, so this case you should be able to see www subdomain pointed to Heroku, can you try to remove the A record.
I would recommend using DNS service like DNSimple/Cloudflare or in case you don't want to go out of Heroku you can try pointDNS
I have purchased a domain with a DNS provider – Namecheap for my Heroku app and followed all of the steps given my Heroku and Namecheap for configuring the domain and the DNS target that was given by Heroku with Namecheap. But still my domain is not working, only by free domain provided my Heroku. I have contacted Namecheap and they have told me all of the settings are correct. I am not able to contact Heroku because I'm on the free service, and I have no idea what is missing here.
=== robertosullivan Custom Domains
Domain Name DNS Record Type DNS Target
─────────────────── ───────────────
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
robertosullivan.com ALIAS or ANAME concentric-cantaloupe-
koaxxlt4rixetcdacu1ebggn.herokudns.com
In the Advanced DNS settings of Namecheap, the CNAME record has a host of www and the value is set to the DNS target given above.
I just want my custom domain to work for my app, but when I try to access the domain I'm told by a Heroku message "nothing here yet".
Use www.robertosullivan.com instead of robertosullivan.com
Would like to learn how website works.
Purchased a domain name from bigrock domain registrar.
Am used to deploy applications to Heroku for my official websites.
But this is my personal site deployed to Heroku.
But how to connect my domain name to heroku ?
Heroku documentation is not clear to me.
I tried domain forwarding after playing with google search, but my site http://www.prithvibhargav.com/ is still giving me blank page.
Where as the heroku default website address still works
http://afternoon-cove-8287.herokuapp.com/
How to make my domain name to connect to heroku and work ?
There are so many terminoliges people use which is confusing
CName , A address, 301 redirect, domain forwarding
Which one to choose ?
You need to set your DNS to point to your heroku address. You should be able to go into the DNS settings in bigrock (where you registered the domain) and create CName record that will forward from your domain (http://www.prithvibhargav.com) to the heroku address (http://afternoon-cove-8287.herokuapp.com/)
This can be done thru Zerigo. But can't i find the nameservers myself from somewhere and update it at the accound where i purchased my domain from ?
Heroku doesn't provide DNS services therefore there are no name servers.
You use your domain name registrars control panel to point your DNS records at your Heroku application. Typically this is a CNAME record pointing at the .herokuapp.com entry. So www.mydomain.com would be a CNAME to myapp.herokuapp.com.
My Domain Name Manager (Brinkster) required name servers, and did not support CNAME records. So I needed to do the following:
Install the Zerigo DNS add-on for my Heroku app.
Add the domain name in the Settings tab of my Heroku app.
In the Resources tab of my Heroku app. click "Zerigo DNS" under "Add-ons".
In the Zerigo management console, click the "Nameservers" tab.
Copy the name servers into the form in Brinkster's Domain Manager control panel.
A bit late to the party, but this is still a problem with wanting to use the Heroku app for the root domain.
I migrated my DNS settings to CloudFlare, as they offer to point the root domain (example.com) as well as aliases (www.example.com) to a CNAME. This allows one to use the Heroku app as the root domain without running into the headache of having to point the root domain to an IP address. You can then install an SSL certificate for the root domain and (typically) the www.example.com alias as well.