How to configure heroku application DNS to Godaddy Domain

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I have created a heroku application and wants to give domain to it from godaddy com   I have configured all three hosts provided by heroku but now I am getting error saying       Heroku   No such app      There is no app configured at that hostname       Perhaps the app owner has renamed it  or you mistyped the URL    I want to know  is there any other way to configure a heroku app   UPDATED   New Approach Please use this link for new approach   Accepted answer is old feature

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I used this videocast to set up my GoDaddy domain with Heroku, and it worked perfectly. Very clear and well explained.

Note: Skip the part about CNAME yourdomain.com. (note the .) and the heroku addons:add "custom domains"

http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2009/10/7/heroku_casts_setting_up_custom_domains/

To summarize the video:

1) on GoDaddy and create a CNAME with

Alias Name: www
Host Name: proxy.heroku.com

2) check that your domain has propagated by typing host www.yourdomain.com on the command line

3) run heroku domains:add www.yourdomain.com

4) run heroku domains:add yourdomain.com

It worked for me after these steps. Hope it works for you too!

UPDATE: things have changed, check out this post Heroku/GoDaddy: send naked domain to www

User · Answer

There are 2 steps you need to perform    Add the custom domains addon and add the domain your going to use  eg www mywebsite com to your application Go to your domain registrar control panel and set www mywebsite com to be a CNAME entry to yourapp herokuapp com assuming you are using the CEDAR stack  There is a third step if you want to use a naked domain  eg mywebsite com when you would have to add the IP addresses of the Heroku load balancers to your DNS for mywebsite com   You can read more about this at http   devcenter heroku com articles custom-domains  At a guess you ve missed out the first step perhaps   UPDATE  Following the announcement of Bamboo s EOL proxy heroku com being retired  September 2014  for Bamboo applications so these should also now use the yourapp herokuapp com mapping now as well

User · Answer

The trick is to   create a CNAME for www myapp com to myapp heroku com create a 301 redirection from myapp com to www myapp com

User · Answer

You can t use the naked domain of your-domain com if it is not redirected to the www your-domain com  Heroku use the www yourdomain com which act here as a subdomain   So when you follow the default instruction to use your-domain com then you will need to assign both of them   We can actually assign only the naked domain without the www your-domain com  Use only your-domain com when the domain s dns provider  NameServers  support ALIAS or ANAME for the   Record to example herokuapp com without CNAME www your-domain com to it    It will let you to point www your-domain com to other hosting separately  independent

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I struggled a lot to resolve it Nothing seemed to work for me  The steps I followed are mentioned here  1 - Go to your App settings  2 - Click on Add domain   3 - A dialog will open  amp  will ask you to enter the desired domain   Please add it starting with www for instance - www abcd com    4 - One added click on Next to move to the next dialog   5 - After adding the domain you will get the DNS target  Now you need to navigate to GoDaddy and follow the following steps  6 - Navigate to https   dcc godaddy com domains  amp  click on your domain  7 - Once clicked you will navigate to https   dcc godaddy com control yourdomain settings 8 - Scroll down to the bottom you will see Manage DNS   9 - It will navigate you to DNS settings then add the entry similar to mentioned below and delete all other CNAME records  Here the value of points is your DNS target that you got in the 4th Step   10 - Then after some time your site should be mapped to the Heroku app URL

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I pointed the non-www to 54 243 64 13 and the www domain com to the alias herokuapp com and all worked nicely    Found the IP only after pointing www domain com and then running the dig command on the www domain com and it showed      ANSWER SECTION  www domain com  14400  IN      CNAME   aliasat herokuapp com  aliasat herokuapp com  300 IN CNAME us-east-1-a route herokuapp com  us-east-1-a route herokuapp com  60 IN  A       54 235 186 37     AUTHORITY SECTION  herokuapp com           900     IN      NS      ns-1378 awsdns-44 org  herokuapp com           900     IN      NS      ns-1624 awsdns-11 co uk  herokuapp com           900     IN      NS      ns-505 awsdns-63 com  herokuapp com           900     IN      NS      ns-662 awsdns-18 net    May not be ideal but worked

User · Answer

Yes  many changes at Heroku  If you re using a Heroku dyno for your webserver  you have to find way to alias from one DNS name to another DNS name  since each Heroku DNS endpoint may resolve to many IP addrs to dynamically adjust to request loads    A CNAME record is for aliasing www example com -  www example com herokudns com   You can t use CNAME for a naked domain      i e  example com  unless you find a name server that can do CNAME Flattening - which is what I did    But really the easiest solution  that can pretty much be taken care of all in your GoDaddy account  is to create a CNAME record that does this  www example com - gt  www example com herokudns com   And then create a permanent 301 redirect from example com to www example com    This requires only one heroku custom domain name configured in your heroku app settings  www example com herokudns com   Jonathan Roy talks about this  above  but provides a bad link

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