I spent 6 hours last night trying to set up my cnames for two apps on heroku, here is what I figured out. Register.com doesn't seem to allow you to do the hostname.ext. (dot trick) as described in Oren Teich's "Screencast tutorial of setting up DNS on GoDaddy"[http:// onticoren.com/2009/06/29/go-daddy-dns-heroku/] so I transfered all my domains from Register.com to godaddy.com and set every thing up. I was finally able to reach my heroku apps by using http://domain.ext as opposed to having to prepend www or some other alias. I had heard that you could use this type of setup with google apps as proxy.heroku.com's mx records point to google. CAUTION:: This however does not seem to be the case! Mail sent to the domains I set up this way never arrived (nor bounce!) removing the hostname.ext. cname (and waiting a while for the record to update) allowed mail to work.
If you do not need any sort of MXrecords then I suppose it is a good trick. So after 2 days I have still not found a reliable way to allow http://hostname.ext to work. I saw in another post that this will be remedied in the near future with the addition of A type records. If anybody knows a good current solution please let me know. I had some promotional material printed for an upcoming launch and it doesn't have www (or another alias) in it at all. I enabled the wildcard domain add-on but I have no idea how to set that up. I suspect that setting up web forwarding would work but I think that would direct all traffic to proxy.heroku.com which I suspect would break my MX records again. If anybody has had experience with this or if it is going to be covered in the documentation update let us know. hope this helped someone and didn't scare anyone away from using heroku, these domain related issues are the only thing I could possibly complain about! --billychamp (codesponge) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
