sandybemonkey
12/20/2015 - 7:38 PM

Getting a GoDaddy domain to point to a Heroku app.

Getting a GoDaddy domain to point to a Heroku app.

Pointing a GoDaddy domain to a Heroku app

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/custom-domains http://thenomadicfreelancer.blogspot.com/2012/08/pointing-godaddy-domain-to-your-heroku.html

1) Custom Subdomains

For each custom subdomain use domains:add in the Terminal.

heroku domains:add www.example.com

2) Subdomain DNS

Go to the domain's DNS manager and configure it with a CNAME record pointing the subdomain to your herokuapp.com hostname.

RecordNameTarget
CNAMEwwwexample.herokuapp.com

To check that this worked correctly run host www.example.com

3) URL Forwarding

This will work to have www.example.com forward to www.example.herokuapp.com, but it won't work if a user types example.com into the browser.

To get this to work, go to the GoDaddy domain information and set forwarding to www.example.com.

Done!