Go Daddy DNS & Heroku
29 Jun
As easy as using Heroku is, setting up DNS seems to be one of the trickier parts. Heroku has some decent instructions, but the dirty secret is that their required config is actually in violation of the DNS RFC. While I’m sure they’re trying to fix this, I’ve been running this for a few months and it does actually work, email and all.
Show don’t tell, so here’s a 2 minute screencast that walks through the process of setting it up. For those who want the one piece of magic: when you want to setup your domain to point to heroku so that http://yourdomain.com actually works, the trick is in the “host” field of the CNAME, put yourdomain.com. <— NOTICE that there is a trailing period there. Put your domain name, plus a period at the end of it, and you should be good.
Configure Go Daddy DNS & Heroku from Oren Teich on Vimeo.
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