Heroku Custom Domain Not Working

Question

What is the correct way to connect a Heroku app with a custom domain?

This is how I did it in the past:

1. Point Godaddy's DNS to heroku's provided target (example: https://peaceful-escarpment-22825.herokuapp.com)

2. Turn on domain forwarding on the domain

3. Add domain to Heroku in the settings

For some reason now my provided target from Heroku is like this: mycustomdomain.com.herokudns.com. When I add that DNS to GoDaddy I get a There's nothing here, yet. page.

Where am I going wrong? Thanks!

Answer 1

FIXED!! After struggling for a long time setting up my www domain with my Heroku app, I had to point the domain to Cloudflare then set it up as follows:

[1]: https://i.sstatic.net/o6CJc.png . [2]: https://i.sstatic.net/P8PSQ.png . [3]: https://i.sstatic.net/BB0DI.png .

Then everything just works perfectly both NON-WWW and WWW domains.

I did not need to do any URL forwarding as see bellow

[4]: https://i.sstatic.net/wgMit.png .

Answer 2

I kept skipping this step because the custom domain already showed up in my Heroku app. Ran this and it started working.

Heroku domains:add www.yourwebsite.com --app <app name>

Bonus: Want every page to be secure SSL? Use this awesome NPM package https://www.npmjs.com/package/force-ssl-heroku

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Update 2021: If you get a sni_endpoint error please refer here: Heroku Custom Domain: sni_endpoint?

Answer 3

Heroku domains:add www.yourwebsite.com --app <app name> 

This is the best way to do it as it needs to know which specific app to point to.

Answer 4

This worked for me, but I had to include --app <app name> at end of the command. Like this:

heroku domains:add www.yourwebsite.com --app <app name>

For the app name, it is the app name you used when creating the app in Heroku.