ruby-on-railsherokudnsdnsimple

DNSimple with Heroku not working


I am having a problem with my DNS server that has just come up. I am following the OMR-One Month Rails tutorial. I don't quite understand how the whole DNS server thing works.

Only 1 out of 3 of my domains work, which is www.example.com. The naked domain (example.com) is not working and neither is example.heroku.com. Whenever I load these 2 addresses it DOES send me to heroku but I get the error message

We're sorry, but something went wrong.

when I go to the terminal and type 'heroku domains' it shows that Heroku knows about all three domains.

How exactly do I configure DNSimple/Heroku so that all 3 addresses work, or at least the naked domain works.

Type ---- Name ---- Content

CNAME ---- www.example.com ---- example.herokuapp.com

ALIAS ---- example.com ---- www.example.com

TXT ---- example.com ---- ALIAS for www.example.com


Solution

  • The DNS configuration is correct. The error you are reading "We're sorry, but something went wrong." is returned by Heroku (or you app), is not a DNS error.

    You need to debug what's causing your app to crash.

    You can inspect the Heroku logs by running

    $ heroku logs --tail
    

    That will show you the most recent log entries generated by your application.