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I have deployed an app on heroku - http://appsparkler.heroku.com and created a custom domain for it - www.appsparkler.com

Then, from goDaddy, where I have purchased this domain name appsparkler.com, I forward with masking to http://appsparkler.heroku.com and redirect 301 (Permanent). Screenshot

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Then, I made changes to the DNS ZONE FILE where I added CNAME and A Host as per a blog I found on the internet.

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This works fine and when I visit www.appsparkler.com I am redirected with masking and can also visit the various links with the URL changing to the link I click on. However, when I browse the webapp with appsparkler.com i.e. without the www, I can go to the various links; however, the links in the address bar don't get updated. For comparision, I have added screenshot of address bar when on home page, first with www.appsparkler.com and then with appsparkler.com. We can see that /home doesn't reflect in second one. Moreover, even the favicon.ico doesn't appear in the second one (without www) as we can see...

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I have tried searching a lot and also tried trial and errors with different settings and looked for solutions on the web and nothing worked.

Please help. Thank you in advance.

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    I was going to suggest that perhaps the problem was the "with masking" bit? (I would have thought example.com should just be an external redirect to www.example.com and then the CNAME record in DNS directs the request to the heroku server?) But you appear to have already solved it - how did you solve it?
    – MrWhite
    Jan 4, 2016 at 23:41
  • Please check the answer in the answer section. I figured it after re-configuring as per instructions on lifesforlearning.com/heroku-with-godaddy. And also what you have suggested in the comment is what fixed it.
    – Aakash
    Jan 5, 2016 at 0:42

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Reference http://lifesforlearning.com/heroku-with-godaddy/

In the FORWARD AND MASKING section (which is under SETTINGS >> Forwarding), I was forward(ing) with masking (as you can see in the screenshot in the question above) to the herokuapp >> http://appsparkler.herokuapp.com. I changed that to forward(without masking) to http://www.appsparkler.com as you can see in the screenshot below.

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