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This is a very specific question I have regarding redirection of a domain on network solutions to a webapp hosted on heroku. I have already set up so that in CNAME Records, Allias www refers to hostname in heroku. The question is, currently if I type my web address without www it does not render my page. Could anyone help me please? I have tried very hard to figure this out. Hope this post will help others in the future as well.

CNAME Redirection screenshot. does not work without www alias

  • possible duplicate of [How to use a non-www domain with heroku?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14015322/how-to-use-a-non-www-domain-with-heroku) – John Beynon Apr 24 '13 at 11:29
  • did you manage to solve it? am also using networksolutions with heroku and not able to get the apex domain to point to my app. – Mo J. Mughrabi Apr 30 '13 at 09:44
  • nope, I could not get any constructive advise. I hope someone can figure it out because I am trying to find out for so long!!! –  May 28 '13 at 15:54
  • check out the my solution, I hope it helps! – blnc Nov 14 '13 at 16:17

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Network Solutions pointing yourdomain.com to www.yourdomain.com. Here's how.

Within Account Manager, select My Domain Names

Select the domain name that you want to manage

In the green box, select Change Where Domain Points

Select Advanced DNS, then Continue

First, edit the A Records by selecting Edit A Records

For the "@ none" enter the following IP address 205.178.189.129, 
clear (delete) the records for the "www" and "* (All others)", 
then select Continue.
Sometimes this takes a few moments for the first step to take effect.

Second, edit the Host Aliases (CNAME records) by selecting Edit CNAME Records

Enter "www" in the Alias column

Leave TTL set to 7200 but on the same line, enter the name servers provided by the blogging service in the Other Host section [ IE FOLLOW THE HEROKU INSTRUCTIONS NOW www --> yourapp.herokuapp.com (Cedar Stack) ]

Select Continue

Now wait and check the domain(s) with the following terminal command:

host domain.com host www.domain.com

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    For everyone wondering, that IP address is an in house IP address that reroutes the Apex domain to a www domain from what Network Solutions says. – NineBlindEyes Jan 10 '14 at 20:48
  • Does anyone know if this still works? I spoke to a rep at Network Solutions and they said this IP (noted above) is old and may or may not work. They said to "give it a try", but nothing more than that. I'm a little hesitant to "give it a try". – Ryan Feb 26 '15 at 01:31
  • I manage several sites parked at Network Solutions and this still works. – blnc Feb 27 '15 at 19:41
  • This doesn't appear to be working any more. At least not for me. My www.domain.com goes to Heroku correctly, but my naked (apex) domain does not. I have now switched over to using Google Apps to redirect my apex domain. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11693394/using-email-w-heroku-and-cname/20115583#20115583 – Ryan Aug 04 '15 at 21:48
  • I just checked my sites using this solution and they are still forwarding. Are your settings correct? – blnc Aug 05 '15 at 01:54
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    It is still working, just put 205.178.189.129 in the browser and it will redirect to www. I made the A record 205.178.189.129 and CNAME to heroku and worked like a charm, thank you :) – Radek Feb 21 '18 at 19:26
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    this is no longer working http://205.178.189.129/ does not respond - anyone figured out a solution that isn't moving DNS providers? – andymacd Mar 06 '18 at 18:58
  • It works with non-ssl, but doesn't do anything for SSL. If you try hitting https://205.178.189.129 it just hangs. – demisx Feb 18 '20 at 01:48
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If in the event, while editing the C-name records you receive this error:

An A record already exists for the entered Alias

Log out, and log back in.

This was the solution provided by Network Solutions customer support which worked for me in addition to @railrailrail's answer.

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You need to forward your apex domain to your www subdomain. Explained in more detail here:

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  • It does not appear that network solutions allows you to redirect (forwarding) to the same domain, even though it's had a subdomain appended. – Bob Spryn Oct 03 '13 at 20:11
  • it does at least to the www subdomain, please see the answer above, hopefully it helps – blnc Nov 14 '13 at 16:10
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As the Network Solutions 205.178.189.129 reroute trick does not appear to be working any more, you will have to look for a third party to redirect your apex domain.

Here are a few options:

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