Redirect a Rails app on Heroku

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I'm hosting a Rails app on Heroku, using the Zerigo DNS. I've added both www.mydomain.com and http://mydomain.com.

My question is this: what is the best way to add a redirect so that http://mydomain.com redirects to www.mydomain.com? Would it be better to add the redirect on Zerigo? Or write some code in Rails to do the redirecting?

Any thoughts are much appreciated.

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score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:28

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using DNS, just point your root domain to redirect to the www. subdomain.

http://www.zerigo.com/blog/2009/07/dns_updates_url_redirection_and_example_code_for_the_api

also

https://stackoverflow.com/a/12325021/1251349

edited May 23 '17 at 12:28

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answered Jun 04 '13 at 20:40

Andrew Wei

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 04 '13 at 20:31

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Add a CNAME record with www host and simply point it to your http://whateverapp.heroku.com

It works for me perfectly!

answered Jun 04 '13 at 20:31

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