How To Set up A Domain to Heroku With Namecheap.

About: a guide on setting up a domain name with NameCheap to Heroku app.

I hope while you are reading this blog you have successfully deployed your application to Heroku. And know thinking about adding a domain, yeah! you're in the right place.

Steps to set up a domain name

1. Adding domain to Heroku.
2. Setting up DNS target with Namecheap.

If you haven’t purchased your domain name yet. Watch this, or Read this.

Done!, Will start…

1. Adding Domain Name To Heroku

• From your project directory runs this command, enter the domain name with “www.” meusama.dev It’s mine.😀

              heroku domains:add www.meusama.dev

• Navigate to your Heroku app => settings => Domains and certificates section, There you see your domain name with DNS target, copy DNS target to clipboard. DNS target will be like encircled-magnolia-9265.herokudns.com
• If not just add your domain name by clicking the Add domain button and enter your domain name with “www.”

• And successfully we had added our domain name to Heroku app.

2. Setting up DNS target with Namecheap.

• Go to your Namecheap dashboard and click the manage button on your domain name tab.

• And you will navigate to ‘domain control panel’. on there click Advance DNS tab.
• Paste your DNS target to CNAME record where Host points to www. After pasting DNS target add a dot at the end.

          encircled-magnolia-9265.herokudns.com.

• You have done half of the work, but DNS propagation takes time. Set TTL to a minimum time in that way you can reduce propagation time.
• You can use Google Flush Cache tool to flush NS and record to your domain name. To check if everything working correctly.
• Go to Google Flush Cache tool and Enter your domain name, If CNAME matches your Heroku DNS target, Then you have done with it.

• Try visiting your domain name, If you get this message “This site can’t provide a secure connection”, then set up an SSL certificate with ACM. Very simple to set it up.
• This blog provides the guide.

If you have any problem with setting up the domain name with this guide, Please feel free to comment below.

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