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Heroku and Naked Domains

October 10th, 2012

I’ve really loving running apps on Heroku, but unfortunately their routing mesh means that they only support custom domains on a subdomain (http://www.mydomain.com), not on the raw domain (http://mydomain.com). Luckily today I discovered an option buried in the Google Apps settings to do this:

Just specify the subdomain for which you have a CNAME pointing to your Heroku app.

Then it’s just a matter of setting your DNS A records to Google’s servers. Here’s it in TransIP (the IPv6 addresses haven’t be updated):

Posted in Blog on October 10th, 2012 at 2:27 pm
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3 responses

  1. Alper comments:
    January 21st, 2013 at 9:35 pm

    So you’re saying that for any TransIP based domain, you should setup a Google Account? No other way (except maybe getting a dnsimple plan as well)?

  2. Peter comments:
    January 21st, 2013 at 9:39 pm

    Yep, those seem to be the options. TransIP does have closer integration with Google Apps now, though that doesn’t seem to change anything.

  3. Alper comments:
    February 3rd, 2013 at 11:13 pm

    Ok. We just went for a DNSimple account to be rid of these annoyances.

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