I'm trying to connect a domain I bought through WordPress to a new site I'm hosting on Heroku.
I tried to follow the Heroku docs on custom domains but now I'm lost: www.mywebsite.com sends me to my new Heroku site, but mywebsite.com still directs me to the old WordPress.
What I've done already:
On wordpress, I initiated a domain transfer and received a transfer code (which I haven't figured out what to do with).
Then I ran on the command line
heroku domains:add www.mywebsite.com
heroku domains
...which showed me a xxxx.herokudns.com address
Finally I went back to WordPress.com and created a new CNAME record, as the Heroku docs specified
Type: CNAME Name: www.mywebsite.com Alias of: xxxx.herokudns.com
This is, I understand from the Heroku docs, the process to register a subdomain. I was unable to follow the procedure for a custom root domain as WordPress does not allow for ALIAS or ANAME records, and requires a subdomain for CNAMES. I also was unable to follow the procedure for a custom wildcard domain because the command failed on the command line
zsh: no matches found: *.mywebsite.com
Help! How do I make sure that users who don't enter the www before mywebsite.com arrive at the right site??
