How do I point my domain name from hostgator to heroku

Question

I\'m trying to point my hostgator domain name to my heroku app, but I keep getting the error when I try to manage my domain names.

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Answer 1

According to https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/custom-domains you must add a CNAME record like "CNAME www example.herokuapp.com" first at Hostgator. After that, you must add www.example.com (with or without www) as a custom domain to your project. It's really simple.