Scott: Thanks. That makes sense and would have been my guess for the approach based on the technique to have a custom domain name for a Heroku app.
Customer: Has www.example.com; adds CNAME to point to example.myapp.com Me: Add example.com to the list of Heroku domains associated with myapp. I assume what I see in my application though is www.example.com, not example.myapp.com. Is that right? I am guessing I need to lookup who www.example.com is really, map it too subdomain example, and continue as usual. Yes? On Feb 20, 2:26 pm, Scott Watermasysk <[email protected]> wrote: > We do something similar on KickoffLabs. > > We require our customers to add CNAME that points back at our domain. > > In your app, you need to use the Heroku API to add the domain to your > application. > > Something like this: > > heroku = Heroku::Client.new(username, password) > heroku.add_domain('your app name', 'example.com') > > -Scott > > -- > Scott Watermasysk > Founder, KickoffLabshttp://www.kickofflabs.com > > > > > > > > On Sunday, February 19, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Martin Streicher wrote: > > I have a Rails 3.2 app on Heroku. > > > It accepts wildcards and subdomains, so each user can have a vanity > > subdomain, such as a.app.com (http://a.app.com), b.app.com > > (http://b.app.com), etc. > > > What I want to do is let a user point example.com (http://example.com) to > > a.app.com (http://a.app.com). > > > What would I have to change in the example.com (http://example.com) DNS > > config to make this > > work? And what do I change in my app? > > > I am guessing example.com (http://example.com) is just a CNAME for > > a.app.com (http://a.app.com). But how does > > my app know what to do -- it needs to know that example.com > > (http://example.com) is really > > a.app.com (http://a.app.com). I suppose I could tell the app that -- the > > user could > > configure it. > > > Just trying to figure out the proxy madness for this... since > > a.app.com (http://a.app.com) is a proxy to app.heroku.com > > (http://app.heroku.com). Does example.com (http://example.com) have to be a > > proxy to app.heroku.com (http://app.heroku.com)?I am guessing that wont > > work. > > > Any ideas would be awesome. > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Heroku" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > (mailto:[email protected]). > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected] > > (mailto:[email protected]). > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en.
