Custom domain names with Heroku and Cloudflare
2022-04-25
Provided your app is deployed on Heroku, and domain name bought from Cloudflare
Setting up DNS while using Heroku for hosting and Cloudflare as DNS provider
Start
1. Heroku
-
Login
-
Select project
-
click
Settings
on the menu -
scroll down to
Domains
-
click
Add domain
1. Add domain name without www e.g. investingjournals.com
2. Add domain name with www e.g. www.investingjournals.com
Copy auto generated DNS Target
strings from above 2
2. Cloudflare
- Login
- Select a site
- click
DNS
on the menu - click
Add record
1.
Add domain name without www
Type: CNAME
Name: @
Target: computational-waters-vz...
2.
Add domain name with www
Type: CNAME
Name: www
Target: regular-viper-s91fyxmyiai...