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According to this Heroku documentation we can allow a Heroku app hosted at myapp.herokuapp.com to be accessed with a custom domain myapp.com.
I have added the follow records to my GoDaddy DNS Zone File:
A (Host)
Host Points To TTL
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@ 50.63.202.1 1/2 Hour
CName (Alias)
Host Points To TTL
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email email.secureserver.net 1/2 Hour
ftp @ 1/2 Hour
www myapp.herokuapp.com 1/2 Hour
Normally the A record points to a server. In this case Heroku doesn't provide an IP address for its cloud applications, and apparently CNAME is enough.
Navigating to www.myapp.com or myapp.com redirects to https://myapp.herokuapp.com. However, navigating to http://www.myapp.com/blog/post/1 (any address not the homepage) will stay with the www.myapp.com domain, and clicking links is OK -- Except when clicking a link to the homepage we are redirected to the myapp.herokuapp.com address.
How can it be set up so the visitor does not see the herokuapp.com address unless visiting it with that address?
The output of heroku logs --tail --app myapp:
2016-03-11T01:13:49.756887+00:00 heroku[router]: at=info method=GET path="/" host=vast-hamlet-33090.herokuapp.com request_id=6177aa6c-dc5f-4de5-a1c6-1ff8b1194849 fwd="24.17.117.236" dyno=web.1 connect=1ms service=24ms status=304 bytes=181
2016-03-11T01:13:49.760014+00:00 app[web.1]: 24.17.117.236 - - [11/Mar/2016:01:13:49 +0000] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 304 - "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/48.0.2564.116 Safari/537.36"
It looks like the app never receives a request from www.myapp.com, but only myapp.herokuapp.com.
The output of heroku domains -a myapp:
=== myapp Heroku Domain
myapp.herokuapp.com
=== myapp Custom Domains
Domain Name DNS Target
------------------ -------------------
www.myapp.com myapp.herokuapp.com
myapp.com myapp.herokuapp.com
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You can buy a custom domain name with a domain registration service. Add the custom domain to your app with the heroku domains:add command. Look up the Heroku-supplied DNS target for the custom domain using the heroku domains command. Configure your app's DNS provider to point to the Heroku-supplied DNS target.
Your website is redirecting to another website because it has been infected with malware. Typically this happens when a malicious individual gains access to your website through a vulnerable plugin or theme.
To Disable an Addon Domain Redirect In the “DOMAINS” section, click the “Addon Domains” link or icon. Click the “Manage Redirection” link corresponding to the Addon domain you wish to manage. In the “Disable Addon Domain Redirection” section, click the “Disable Redirection” button.
In my case using Ghost, updating the HEROKU_URL in the Ghost configuration to 'http://www.myapp.com' fixed this error. I thought I had this set up, but I changed it to 'http://myapp.herokuapp.com' so I could access the admin panel, which wasn't accepting requests from URLs not HEROKU_URL.
I was also having a separate issue with Chrome automatically, helpfully-not-helpfully redirecting before the request hit the server, so the Node app received a request for myapp.herokuapp.com. I discovered this by trying to use another browser to access my app. I cleared the browser cookies and cache and myapp.com was no longer redirected in Chrome.
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For newer version of Ghost (3.x) while using the https://github.com/SNathJr/ghost-on-heroku deploy script, I updated the APP_PUBLIC_URL to use http://example.com.
Also I set a page rule in Cloudflare to use http://*example.com/* with the setting: Always use HTTPS
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