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    copied!<p>I have my domain name <code>example.com</code> from domain registrar <strong>BigRock</strong>, which also provides me the DNS management panel.<br> My application is hosted at <strong>Heroku</strong> at <code>example.herokuapp.com</code>.</p> <p>Domain Settings at Heroku:</p> <pre><code>bash-3.2$ heroku domains === MyApp Domain Names *.example.com example.herokuapp.com example.com www.example.com </code></pre> <p>In my DNS Management panel, I have 0 A records, 1 MX records for Hotmail and 1 CNAME record for <code>www.example.com</code>.</p> <p>I know about the problem with Naked domains and A-records with Heroku. I have gone through these: 1. <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/16041655/355722">StackOverflow ques - How to setup DNS for an apex domain (no www) pointing to a Heroku app?</a><br> 2. <a href="https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/custom-domains#root-domain" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Heroku DevCenter - Custom domains - set up root domain</a><br> 3. <a href="https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/apex-domains" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Heroku DevCenter - Apex Domains</a> </p> <p>The above links and many others point towards 2 solutions: </p> <ul> <li>Using ALIAS or ANAME records by DNSimple/ DNS Made Easy </li> <li>If your DNS provider does not support such a record-type, and you are unable to switch to one that does, you will need to use subdomain redirection to send root domain requests to your app on Heroku.</li> </ul> <p>Since, I couldn't find such records on BigRock DNS Management Console. There were only these records - "A, AAAA, MX, CNAME, TXT, SRV and SOA". </p> <p>Accordingly, I have setup "<strong>Domain Forwarding</strong>" for my domain. But, it only gave me option to provide "<em>Designation URL where you wish to forward requests for www.example.com and example.com</em>". </p> <p>Now, If I do </p> <pre><code>bash-3.2$ host example.com example.com has address 173.194.16.11 example.com mail is handled by 15 888379351a9a.pamx1.hotmail.com. </code></pre> <p>and</p> <pre><code>bash-3.2$ host www.example.com www.example.com is an alias for example.herokuapp.com. </code></pre> <p>This does solve the naked domain problem. But other subdomains like <code>xyz.example.com</code> are still not redirected to <code>www.example.com</code>, because there is no mention to redirect all subdomains i.e "*" to any other designation in the "Domain Forwarding" section on BigRock DNS provider. </p> <p><strong>So, my question is how can I solve this problem of redirecting sub-domains?</strong></p> <blockquote> <p>Another Query Related to SSL -</p> </blockquote> <p>Here in the <a href="https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/custom-domains#subdomain-redirection" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Heroku Devcenter - subdomain redirection</a>, it says that <em>"However, be aware that, using this method, a secure request to the root domain, e.g., <a href="https://example.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://example.com</a>, will result in an error or warning being displayed to the user."</em></p> <p>Is there any way of fixing the above issue, or do I have to switch to DNSimple or DNS Made Easy to use the ALIAS or ANAME records services they provide?</p> <p><strong>UPDATE:</strong><br> On further digging, I found this SO ques - <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13536724/rails-manually-redirecting-from-naked-domain">Rails Manually redirecting from Naked Domain</a>, which suggests using: </p> <ul> <li><a href="https://github.com/jtrupiano/rack-rewrite" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Rack_rewrite</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/joshsusser/refraction" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Refraction gem</a></li> </ul> <p>Is this a better way?</p>
 

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