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
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I am trying to use a custom domain name in Heroku. So I was following the general directions and I had a question about it.
So I want to get rid of the herokuapp.com in example.herokuapp.com, which requires that I buy the example.com domain name.
It says in the first step "Confirm that you own the custom domain name. If not, you can buy one with a domain registration service."
How does heroku know that I bought example.com in the domain registration service?
If you look at your Herokuapp.com dashboard, for your particular app, you'll find that heroku has issued you a specific domain name. Something like some-custom-string.herokudns.com. Notice that this is herokuDNS.com which is different from herokuapp.com (herokuapp.com is used to access your website publicly). Only you have access to this custom dns string.
When you buy a domain name from a registrar, it'll usually also provide a DNS server. You'll then add a CNAME record in your DNS settings to point to your heroku provided some-custom-string.herokudns.com url. Since only you've access to your DNS server settings, if Heroku finds that the cname entry is present in your DNS records, it'll be a confirmation that you own the domain. The steps to do this are described here.
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
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
Thanks for feedback on this one!
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.
I am having troubles with setting up custom domain for my heroku app.
here is my heroku app:
https://evening-beyond-1234.herokuapp.com/
and let's say it is my domain:
my-fake-domain.com
So I want my app being able at this domain.
I've added this domain to heroku app domains:
$ heroku domains
=== evening-beyond-1234 Heroku Domain
evening-beyond-1234.herokuapp.com
=== evening-beyond-1234 Custom Domains
Domain Name DNS Target
---------------- ---------------------------------
my-fake-domain.com evening-beyond-1234.herokuapp.com
And on the site where I've bought the domain I can change DNS, so I did this:
1) Type of DNS -> DNS from other hosting provider
2) 1st DNS server (*required) -> evening-beyond-1234.herokuapp.com
3) 2nd DNS server (*required) -> evening-beyond-1234.herokuapp.com
I put the same for the second DNS, because it is marked as required, so I need to specify two DNS.
It's been a few days after these changes and it does not work.
There is also another option for changing DNS: extended DNS editor.
I can specify CNAME entries and others there.
Any ideas what I am doing wrong?
I am completely new to this area, it should be just a silly mistake from my side %)
Your configuration is incorrect. What you are doing is that you are changing the name server of your domain, hence moving the delegation to Heroku.
However, Heroku is not an authoritative name server, hence you can't delegate your domain to them.
What you need to do is restore the delegation at your hosting provider and, instead, check the documentation of your hosting/DNS provider to learn how to create an A or CNAME record to point your domain to Heroku.
Also note that you will not be able to point your apex domain (hence my-fake-domain.com to Heroku unless you use one of these DNS providers that support a CNAME-like capability for the apex domain.
Regardless who you use, you can create a CNAME record to point www.my-fake-domain.com to evening-beyond-1234.herokuapp.com.
For my-fake-domain.com you either create an ALIAS/ANAME according to one of those provider documentation, or you redirect the domain to the www version.
After reading about how a my-app.herokuapp.com cannot be referenced by an A Record by the simple fact that Heroku has a dynamic implementation of its servers, I chanced upon articles which extolled the uses of ALIAS functions in DNS services like Zerigo and DNsimple as a workaround for this issue.
This SO Post explains this problem has been solved, Point top level domain to heroku app
However I do not follow how exactly to implement the solution.
Assuming I have a functional ALIAS setup in Zerigo which points to my my-app.herokuapp.com how do I then have my current webhost point to this ALIAS for the root domain?
Here is my Hostgator Control Panel which shows how the root domain (fls.net) is directed to a particular server via an A Record. I would like to subistute that A Record with my Zerigo ALIAS. How do I do that? Do I change my A Record to a CName? and then just put the ALIAS name in?
Note:
This post: How to redirect a root (naked) domain to www - heroku and zerigo seemed to have the same issue, except I don't understand why he calls the solution of using an ALIAS as "temporary". Why would it be a temporary solution?
You have to change your domain's name servers to point to Zerigo's name servers. You do this through your HostGator config. Zerigo has an article on the name servers that your domain should use. This article from HostGator explains how to change your domain's name servers. Basically, you want to log in to the HostGator portal and change the name server's to the one's listed in Zerigo's article.
Zerigo can handle the DNS for your domains, but only if DNS resolvers know to look at Zerigo instead of HostGator. Right now, when a DNS resolver (such as the one used by your computer's operating system) looks up the IP address to which yourdomain.com resolves, it first looks for the name servers that handle yourdomain.com, and then queries them. If the name servers point to HostGator, it doesn't matter what records you put in Zerigo, because HostGator will be queried for the domain's associated IP address. If you want Zerigo to handle the DNS resolution, you have to point the name servers to those managed by Zerigo instead.