Ideally you want everything to be a CNAME of your Heroku URL (app.herokuapp.com etc). The problem is is that the DNS spec doesn't allow the Apex domain to be CNAME'ed. The solution is to use Zerigo or DNSimple who provide workarounds.
Full writeup here: http://neilmiddleton.com/the-dangers-of-a-records-and-heroku/ Neil On Tuesday, 3 April 2012 at 01:24, Justin Collum wrote: > Hi, I have an app that's set up at http://gentle-wind-0000.herokuapp.com/. On > my hover.com (http://hover.com) account in the DNS I have two records: > > WWW CNAME www.gentle-wind-0000.herokuapp.com > (http://www.gentle-wind-0000.herokuapp.com) > > URL CNAME gentle-wind-0000.herokuapp.com > (http://gentle-wind-0000.herokuapp.com) # (I'm not sure if this one is > right/valid) > > The app is browsable at gentle-wind-0000.herokuapp.com > (http://gentle-wind-0000.herokuapp.com), but the redirected URL > (http://myapp.com) is giving me this message: > > Heroku | No such app > > So I'm confused about how I should be setting this up. Usually I just do A > records that point to an IP, but after reading the article on heroku about > that I decided that an A record was not a good idea. So I'd like to set this > up with a www domain and a top level domain that redirects to www. How should > I set up my CNAME records to achieve this? > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Heroku" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/heroku/-/uSGwjEBAFcoJ. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > (mailto:[email protected]). > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > (mailto:[email protected]). > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en. -- 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.
