when i open my website- www.domainname.com (example), it is opening but changing to http://ec2-xx-xxx-xxx-xx.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com/.
What have I done till now? :
I copied Elastic IP address from AWS EC2 instance and pasted in godaddy's DNS Management in Records containing Type A, Name #, Value : My Elastic IP,TTL 1 hour
Here is my screenshot:
Could anyone explain why my domain name is changing to aws public dns and how i should overcome it?
Thanks in advance!
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I have a test application running at
http://ec2-34-215-196-193.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com/
(This is a Test application, it wont be live for long. When I try to add a CNAME to this, like the screenshot below
. is added by the DNS system.
However, my app seems to be accessible only via us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com or us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com.
I can make it to resolve it either one of them.
But adding anything, does not seem to resolve with a CNAME. It gives 503 Service Unavailable.
I am using AWS EC2 to host the app with a HAProxy Load Balancer.
Using Google Domains for DNS Name.
Any suggestions for troubleshooting this problem?
All dns entries have a dot in the end like subdomain.domain.com.
It's not suggested to create CNAMEs to your ec2 instance because that IP may vary in time and it's not reassignable, that's what elastic ip's are made for, just create an elastic IP, assign it to your ec2 instance and assign it as an A record on your DNS provider.
Amazon AWS documentation
First create elastic IP and assign to your instance. Then create A record and point IP. Your site should work normal.
I have purchased a domain name from Godaddy. I would like to point this domain to a server EC2 instance on AWS. On my registrar's web site I specified AWS name servers which i created using Amazon Route 53. Using Route 53 I created specified DNS record (NS, A, SOA) please have a look at screenshot. I waited > 24 hours for changes to propagate but I can't access my website via my domain name.
I have created one A record mydomain.in but still my site didn't work then i created two more A records named as www.mydomain.in and *.mydomain.in but didn't work this time as well.
Please let me know what's incorrect.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks in Advance.
Your Domain Name is still pointing to other nameservers [ns1.bodis.com, ns2.bodis.com] than the ones on your route53. you need to change that !
To do so you can refer to this tutorial
and then you can fill in the NS fields with the ones given in Route53 [ns-1825.awsdns-32.co.uk, ...]
I have a domain registered with Dreamhost
I have an EC2 instance with the site running (that I can access by its IP address)
I'm using Amazon Route 53 for a hosted zone
I have pointed my DreamHost name servers to the ones provided by Amazon (and it has been over 48 hours)
The only thing I don't understand how to enter is the SOA record provided by Route 53. There doesn't seem to be an option in the DreamHost DNS management console to add it.
Going to the website gives the standard "DNS record not found" from my service provider.
What am I missing? I will really appreciate any help :)
In Dreamhost:
Use the values in NS (provided from AWS Route53) with your domain registrar(dreamhost).
In AWS Route53:
Add an 'A Record' with IP of the EC2 instance in value.
To resolve www to the naked domain name you could use, CNAME record, I have attached an image with some values masked.
Hope this helps.
I'm running into this problem trying to link my Godaddy domain with an AWS Elastic Beanstalk instance. I found a lot of documentation on how to link an EC2 instance with a domain on Godaddy but not for Elastic Beanstalk instance. So I ended up with this URL: www.MY_SITE.elasticbeanstalk.com
Here is what I did for an EC2 instance:
I updated the Nameservers on my Godaddy domain with the ones from my Route 53 Hosted Zone.
I created a new Elastic IP on the EC2 console.
I went back to Godaddy and updated the DNS A # field from their DNS Manager, with the EC2 Elastic IP one.
You normally have to wait 1h to 48h and it should work.
How can I do the same for a AWS Elastic Beanstalk instance, not an EC2 one? I can't see the instance I created from my EC2 console in order to link it to an Elastic IP.
Hope this is clear enough.. Any help?
No need to create a CNAME or do any forwarding - this is bad from the point of SEO and not recommended by Amazon. Even you should not point a record to IP directly - it will cause a lot of troubles in the future because IP can be changed any moment.
The most elegant way is to migrate DNS service from GoDaddy to Route 53. You still will be with GoDaddy, but handling requests for your site will be on Amazon's side.
Here is what you need to do:
Create a new Hosted Zone for your site in Route 53 console:
Open newly added domain name, find NS record and copy servers:
In GoDaddy's Domain Manager export records via "Export Zone File (Windows)".
Import those records to Route 53 ("Import Zone File" button).
In GoDaddy's Domain Manager set custom DNS nameservers, obtained on the 2nd step:
Migrating might take some time (even days).
Now you can link you domain with your Elastic Beanstalk site. To do so select/create proper A record type in Route 53 and set Alias for it:
Here's what I did when I was facing the problem of linking a GoDaddy domain with AWS ElasticBeanstalk.
DNS Manager:
A record #: 64.202.189.170 (that is GoDaddy's forwarding IP btw)
Cname www: AWS EB domain (e.g. awseb-xyz.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com)
Forwarding:
Forward Domain to www.example.com (forward only, without masking)
Forward Subdomain to AWS EB domain (e.g. awseb-xyz.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com) (with masking)
In order to access the site without www (e.g. http://example.com), I had to set up the forwarding of the domain to the www cname. This www cname then gets forwarded to the AWS EB domain (with masking in order to keep www.example.com in the address bar).
You should add a CNAME record to your Godaddy domain name that maps from www.yourGoDaddyDomain.com -> MY_SITE.elasticbeanstalk.com.
That will direct requests to your domain name to the load balancer that is running in your elastic beanstalk environment. You don't want to route your domain name to a specific server (i.e. an elastic IP), you want it to go to the load balancer and that will route requests to your server(s). Since AWS Load balancers don't use IPs (they use domain names), you don't want to set up an A record for this - a CNAME record maps domain names to domain names.
Look at the "Adding or Editing CNAMEs" section of the GoDaddy documentation on how to do this.
Your route53 configuration has to point to the load balancer, not the ec2 instance
I'm trying to set up an EC2 instance with a public domain name that I bought from 123-reg.
Aside from associating the elastic IP with the instance that's running, and changing the DNS at 123-reg, is there anything else I need to do to access the site?
Any ideas or tutorial links would be greatly appreciated.
You just need to set an A record on your DNS entry for the domain to point at the Elastic IP, that's it.