How to configure DNS records for Name.com and a Heroku app

Question

I\'m a bit confused about how to set up the DNS records for my domain at Name.com so it can correctly point to my Heroku app.

I found DNS configuration documentation

Answer 1

Here's what worked for me. Start with typing this in the Heroku CLI

Heroku domains: add www.youwebsitename.com --app yourherokuapp 

This should give you a DNS target.You can obtain this from the your app settings as well on the website . Copy it and save it because we are going to need it later.Then after this run

heroku domains:wait for www.youwebsitename.com --app yourherokuapp 

Then visit name.com and under your domains visit your dns records . There add CNAME entry with HOST equal to "www.yourwebsite.com" and ANSWER equal to whatever the dns target that heroku supplied you with .

Go ahead and visit your website , it'll work , if it doesn't make sure that you've used www with your website name . To fix this issue add an ANAME entry with "yourwebsite.com" as HOST and heroku dns again as target . It should reflect the changes within few hours .