ruby-on-railsruby-on-rails-4herokudnsgoogle-domain-api

How to configure Google Domains + Heroku w a Naked Domain

I have a domain loading in a web browser using Heroku and Google Domains. Right now the domain loads with a www: http://www. XXX .com.

If I enter the URL w/o the WWW like http:// XXX .com I get the following error in Chrome: "XXX.com’s server DNS address could not be found"

What do I need to do so that the following happens:

  1. This loads - http:// mydomain.com
  2. http://www. mydomain.com redirects to http:// mydomain.com

Thank you

Solution

  • IMHO, you should:

    1/ Set your heroku domain to be http://example.com. All the info are in the Heroku documentation.

    Heroku should serve your site using http://example.com.

    2/ You need to redirect in Google Domains your http://www.example.com to http://example.com. To do this, you need to set web forwarding in the Google Domain console under the website tab. The documentation is straight forward.

    Any http://www.example.com request should be forwarded to http://example.com.

    UPDATE

    Due to your needs, I am wondering if the best is not to disable the naked to www redirection, have both domain points to your heroku instance and get a SSL certificate for them (using let's encrypt makes things easy).

    Here is a tutorial.

    I hope this helps!