Keenan: Yes, thanks. I have this configuration already. What I wanted
was another proxy.

On Feb 20, 5:31 pm, Keenan Brock <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Martin,
>
> There are 2 things.
>
> 1. The browser needs to resolve the domain name to heroku's servers.
> You tell DNS to point a.app.com (http://a.app.com) or example.com 
> (http://example.com) to the right app server [app.heroku.com 
> (http://app.heroku.com)].
> The CNAME record does this.
> You can tell DNS to point all *.app.com to point to heroku.com.
>
> 2. The app server at Heroku needs to route the request to the right 
> Application.
> The heroku.add_domain example does this.
> Or if you have a simple app, the web configuration does this.
>
> If you use a wild card domain (heroku wild card), then it is easy to say 
> *.app.com (http://app.com) all point to your code base.
>
> If you do not/can not wild card the domains, then you will need to add every 
> entry to link to your app.
> So if you are adding another domain, e.g.: example.com (http://example.com), 
> you'll probably need to add this via the command line.
>
> Did that help?
>
> —Keenan
>
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> On Sunday, February 19, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Martin Streicher wrote:
> > I have a Rails 3.2 app on Heroku.
>
> > It accepts wildcards and subdomains, so each user can have a vanity
> > subdomain, such as a.app.com (http://a.app.com), b.app.com 
> > (http://b.app.com), etc.
>
> > What I want to do is let a user point example.com (http://example.com) to 
> > a.app.com (http://a.app.com).
>
> > What would I have to change in the example.com (http://example.com) DNS 
> > config to make this
> > work? And what do I change in my app?
>
> > I am guessing example.com (http://example.com) is just a CNAME for 
> > a.app.com (http://a.app.com). But how does
> > my app know what to do -- it needs to know that example.com 
> > (http://example.com) is really
> > a.app.com (http://a.app.com). I suppose I could tell the app that -- the 
> > user could
> > configure it.
>
> > Just trying to figure out the proxy madness for this... since
> > a.app.com (http://a.app.com) is a proxy to app.heroku.com 
> > (http://app.heroku.com). Does example.com (http://example.com) have to be a
> > proxy to app.heroku.com (http://app.heroku.com)?I am guessing that wont 
> > work.
>
> > Any ideas would be awesome.
>
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