On GoDaddy, use the “Forwarding” feature to setup a forward from yourdomain.example to www.yourdomain.example. The forwarding feature can be accessed in the Domain Manager at the bottom of the “Domain Information” section: If you do this then all traffic to yourdomain.example will be routed to the Heroku app CNAME (which is the better approach). One … Read more
Whether your DNS entry uses a CNAME or an A record doesn’t matter. What matters is the host name the client is trying to connect to. It must match one of the Subject Alternative Names in the certificate of the server providing that resource (or, failing that, it must match the CN RDN of the … Read more
An important distinction to make is that a CNAME and a rewrite/redirect (or vhost) are totally different things that often get confused. A CNAME is a DNS entity so that you can have multiple names pointing to a singular address. For example, bob.example.com is a host that lives at 1.2.3.4. You can then create a … Read more