# Pointing a GoDaddy domain to a Heroku app

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/custom-domains
http://thenomadicfreelancer.blogspot.com/2012/08/pointing-godaddy-domain-to-your-heroku.html

### 1) Custom Subdomains

For each custom subdomain use `domains:add` in the Terminal.

```
heroku domains:add www.example.com
```

### 2) Subdomain DNS

Go to the domain's DNS manager and configure it with a CNAME record pointing the subdomain to your herokuapp.com hostname.

| Record | Name | Target |
| ------ | ---- | ------ |
| CNAME | www  | example.herokuapp.com |

To check that this worked correctly run `host www.example.com`

### 3) URL Forwarding

This will work to have www.example.com forward to www.example.herokuapp.com, but it won't work if a user types example.com into the browser.

To get this to work, go to the GoDaddy domain information and set forwarding to www.example.com.

###### Done!