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DenCowboy
DenCowboy

Reputation: 15076

How to configure DNS on Heroku (pointdns)

I have the following configuration in pointDNS:

* SOA example.com dnsx.pointhq.com, admin.xxx.com, ...
* ALIAS example.com xxx.herokussl.com.
* CNAME www.example.com. xxx.herokussl.com. (same as above)
* NX example.com dnsx.xxx.com (same as above)
* NX example.com dnsy.pointhq.com (different)

I did not make this initial configuration and now trying to understand what this means.

The main issue is the fact when we visit example.com we are redirected to https://example.com and when we visit www.example.com we're redirected to https://www.example.com.

How can I solve this in the configuration above?

Upvotes: 8

Views: 2440

Answers (1)

nbari
nbari

Reputation: 26925

In case you would also like to receive/send email using your custom domain, probably the easiest way would be to use Cloudflare, check Heroku docs for: Configuring DNS for root domains

Within Cloudflare to redirect example.com to www.example.com you could create a Page rule:

example.com/*

You'd then setup the following URL for traffic to forward to:

https://www.example.com/$1

To do the redirect with PointDNS you will have to delete first the Alias:

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Then click on the redirect icon and don't type any name: enter image description here

If you haven't delete the ALIAS record you will get the warning shown in the picture

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Once you create the redirect it should look like this:

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Common Runtime - SSL Endpoint

If you’re using the SSL Endpoint, note that your DNS Targets will be a little different. For apps in the Common Runtime, the endpoint domain name will vary depending on region. The US region will have a name in the form of example-2121.herokussl.com. Apps in the EU region will have the same domain name as your app’s herokuapp domain, e.g. my-app-name.herokuapp.com.

Upvotes: 1

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