Pointing your Bluehost Domain to a Heroku App

Written 6 months ago

The other day I had some difficulty assigning my bluehost domain name to my heroku account for this website. I thought I would detail the process here.

• Sign in
• Go to domains
• Unassign the selected domain
• Go to zone editor, and select your domain from the dropdown menu.
• Delete any previously created records.
• Go to heroku, click your app, go to settings, and add a domain.
• Copy the DNS target, return to zone editor.

In zone editor, enter the following in the fields:

• Host Record: @
• TTL: 0, or leave it at 14400 (This just means Time Till Live in seconds)
• Type: A
• Points To: Paste the DNS target that heroku gave you.

And you’re done! Congrats!

I will add pictures for this later.