configuring heroku hobby dyno with a namecheap domain at root level

I am experiencing the same issue. I've contacted Namecheap and Heroku both for support. This is what I've come up with, but my domain is still not resolving.

Since you're pointing www.mollydwellness.org at your app, you'll need to make sure you've added that to your Heroku config (currently you only have the non-www version assigned):

$ heroku domains:add www.mollydwellness.org --app mollydwellness

Once that is added, you should receive a new DNS target that you'll need to use to update your CNAME record.

$ heroku domains=== mollydwellness Heroku Domainmollydwellness.herokuapp.com=== mollydwellness Custom DomainsDomain Name             DNS Record Type  DNS Target──────────────────────  ───────────────  ────────────────────────────────────www.mollydwellness.org  CNAME            www.mollydwellness.org.herokudns.commollydwellness.org      ALIAS or ANAME   mollydwellness.org.herokudns.com

Namecheap Config

 Type       Host      Value        TTL            CNAME Record        www    www.mollydwellness.org.herokudns.com.    5 min    URL Redirect Record     @    http://www.mollydwellness.org/    Unmasked

I am told to give it another 30 minutes before contacting support again. It's been 45 minutes and still not resolving.

Very confused, probably just going to deploy it myself to a VPS because that would be easier at this point. I went with Heroku to save myself time, but it appears there can be no shortcuts. More help from the community would be great.

the only thing you need to do for dns, is going to heroku, setting the following on the custom domain :

*.mywebsite.com

mywebsite.com

www.mywebsite.com

on Namecheap you do the following configuration:

CNAME Record @ myapp.herokuapp.com. 1 min

CNAME Record www myapp.herokuapp.com. 1 min

URL Redirect Record @ https://www.myapp.herokuapp.com Unmasked

URL Redirect Record www https://www.aipredictor.herokuapp.com Unmasked

and you are done. that covers all of the possible scenarios.