redirect mydomain.com to openshift app without www

Question

I am trying to deploy my app on Openshift.

I've added www.mydomain.com, and mydomain.com as aliases on Openshift and changed the cname record 'www' to myapp-mydomain.rhcloud.com

when I try to access the app these are the results,

myapp-mydomain.rhcloud.com - Opens myapp

www.mydomain.com - redirects to myapp

mydomain.com - opens a blank page (the source of the blank page links to a godaddy's parking looks like this http://mcc.godaddy.com/park/xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

how can I make my mydomain.com point to the application at myapp-mydomain.rhcloud.com

I have tried to change the 'A' record of the domain that pointed to 184.168.221.xx but it needs to be an IP address not the app address.

thank you so much for any help.

Answer 1

CloudFlare allows you to create naked domains as CNAME records for free. Add CNAME records for both mydomain.com and www.mydomain.com which aliases myapp-mydomain.rhcloud.com.

Answer 2

Not sure if you've seen this Openshift Article or not https://www.openshift.com/blogs/custom-url-names-for-your-paas-applications-host-forwarding-and-cnames-the-openshift-way but it will walk you through step by step on how to acheive exactly what your asking.

The important part to pay attention to is:

If you want to forward over your whole domain, such as mycompany.com and not www.mycompany.com, then you either need to use Domain Forwarding or find a DNS provider that allows "Naked" CName records. Domain forwarding uses a web server to do a redirect.

Also be sure to check out https://www.openshift.com/forums/openshift/domain-with-no-www-dns-question-is-that-possible.