Naked Domain with Heroku and BigRock
Once you setup a domain forward in BigRock DNS panel, you will see two A records like example.com => 173.193.106.11
and www.example.com => 173.193.106.11
. The same way if you create wildcard dns A record, it will redirect for all the domains. i.e *.example.com => 173.193.106.11
I am not sure if the IP is same in your case because Bigrock might be using multiple servers to offer this service.
Linode do not offer naked domain ANAME records either. A solution I have found is to add a www.site.com CNAME record for the Heroku app as normal. Then point the naked domain/catch-all A record to the following IP address:
174.129.25.170
This is a free naked domain redirect service offered by wwizer. It will take your naked domain, and simply redirect it to a www. equivalent:
site.com => www.site.com
Hope this helps.
Try adding your domain name with www
in the 'Destination' of Domain Forwarding Panel.Later, remove the A record for www
. Hence, there will only be 2 A records
i.e for naked domain and wildcard (*)
Then add a CNAME record for www
pointing to the HerokuApp
value.Do let us know if you are facing any issues.