Custom domain names with Heroku and Cloudflare

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...

End