Heroku Custom Domain Not Working

Question

What is the correct way to connect a Heroku app with a custom domain?

This is how I did it in the past:

1. Point Godaddy's DNS to heroku's provided target (example: https://peaceful-escarpment-22825.herokuapp.com)

2. Turn on domain forwarding on the domain

3. Add domain to Heroku in the settings

For some reason now my provided target from Heroku is like this: mycustomdomain.com.herokudns.com. When I add that DNS to GoDaddy I get a There's nothing here, yet. page.

Where am I going wrong? Thanks!

Solution 1

I kept skipping this step because the custom domain already showed up in my Heroku app. Ran this and it started working.

Heroku domains:add www.yourwebsite.com --app <app name>

Bonus: Want every page to be secure SSL? Use this awesome NPM package https://www.npmjs.com/package/force-ssl-heroku

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Update 2021: If you get a sni_endpoint error please refer here: Heroku Custom Domain: sni_endpoint?

Solution 2

This worked for me, but I had to include --app <app name> at end of the command. Like this:

heroku domains:add www.yourwebsite.com --app <app name>

For the app name, it is the app name you used when creating the app in Heroku.

Comments

[eleven]

@Justin in console either on your machine or at heroku: devcenter.heroku.com/articles/git#http-git-authentication

[us_david]

you have to add www to the custom domain when adding it: