How to point Godaddy Domain to Amazon EC2? - amazon-ec2

Question

I am running a Node.JS HTTP server on an Amazon EC2 instance.
My IP address and port are 54.169.62.98:7001. How do I point my Godaddy domain to this IP and port?
Is it possible to use a port other than 80?

Answer 1

Yes, simple.
Go to godady DNS manager and add a type A record pointing to your ip address like bellow.
Then go to your aws-ec2 console and add a custom inbound TCP rule under your AWS security group like bellow.
Open firewall for 7001/tcp on your server sudo ufw allow 7001/tcp
Run the node.js app on your server and then type 54.169.62.98:7001 on your browser
Good luck!

Answer 2

Some protocols such as XMPP can use SRV records, which does allow you to publish the port used. However, in the general case, especially web traffic, you can't point an A record to a TCP port.
It sounds like you would want to either get Node to listen on port 80, or install a reverse proxy (such as Nginx) on your EC2 instance to forward traffic on port 80 to 127.0.0.1:7001. There's a simple guide here.

Answer 3

Yes, you can point any instance of AWS via GoDaddy domain. You have to save A record for hit your instance via host # and point to your IP(54.169.62.98), after this you can hit you IP but not port 7001, for port distribution you will have to some config some file.
for Virtual host
<VirtualHost *:80>
ProxyPreserveHost On
ProxyRequests Off
ServerName www.example.org
ServerAlias example.org
Redirect permanent / https://example.org/
</VirtualHost>
For ssl config
<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
<VirtualHost *:443>
ServerAdmin webmaster#localhost
ServerName example.org
DocumentRoot /var/www/html
ProxyPreserveHost On
ProxyRequests Off
ProxyPass / http://localhost:7001/
ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:7001/
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
SSLEngine on
SSLProtocol all -SSLv2 -SSLv3
SSLCertificateFile /home/ubuntu/today.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /home/ubuntu/today.key
SSLCertificateChainFile /home/ubuntu/intermediate.crt
SSLCACertificateFile /home/ubuntu/intermediate.crt
<FilesMatch "\.(cgi|shtml|phtml|php)$">
SSLOptions +StdEnvVars
</FilesMatch>
<Directory /usr/lib/cgi-bin>
SSLOptions +StdEnvVars
</Directory>
BrowserMatch "MSIE [2-6]" \
nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown \
downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0
BrowserMatch "MSIE [17-9]" ssl-unclean-shutdown
</VirtualHost>
</IfModule>