How to configure heroku application DNS to Godaddy Domain?

There are 2 steps you need to perform,

  1. Add the custom domains addon and add the domain your going to use, eg www.mywebsite.example to your application
  2. Go to your domain registrar control panel and set www.mywebsite.example to be a CNAME entry to yourapp.herokuapp.com assuming you are using the CEDAR stack.
  3. There is a third step if you want to use a naked domain, eg mywebsite.example when you would have to add the IP addresses of the Heroku load balancers to your DNS for mywebsite.example

You can read more about this at http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/custom-domains

At a guess you’ve missed out the first step perhaps?

Following the announcement of Bamboo’s EOL proxy.heroku.com being retired (September 2014) for Bamboo applications so these should also now use the yourapp.herokuapp.com mapping now as well.

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