some time ago I registered a domain with Netsons, now I changed nameservers to route53 and it points to my website on EC2. Now I don't know if i have to pay Netsons every year for registration or not!!! thank you!
You will always pay for domain registration each year. Route53 is only provides DNS and not domain registration.
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I need to transfer DNS management to AWS Route53 so I can host multiple Wordpress sites with different domains on a Lightsail instance using Plesk Obsidian. I've already set up one domain and its website. The next domain I need to setup for a Wordpress site that'll run on the Lightsail instance has an existing subdomain that's used for an app running on an EC2 instance. That EC2 instance's URL doesn't use a Route53 zone, i.e., it just has an A record that associates the subdomain to the EC2's static IP address.
My question is whether I need to create a Route53 zone for the subdomain after I move DNS record management to Route53, or is just keeping the A record for the subdomain in the Route53 DNS records sufficient without creating a separate Route53 zone?
Hopefully my question/concern makes sense. My concern stems from whether Route53 behaves like any other DNS manager or if it has peculiarities I need to be aware of for what I want to do.
I figured I'd just have to learn by trial and error since no one answered.
I created the A record on Route53 to point to the subdomain and switched to AWS nameservers ... and voila, it worked without having to add the subdomain as a Route 53 zone. My security certificate even resumed working on the subdomain after a 10 minute period in which it couldn't find the CNAME record of the certificate issuer.
So long story short, Route53 works just fine for pointing to subdomains outside of the Route53 zone. One A record does the trick.
I am trying to use a custom domain name in Heroku. So I was following the general directions and I had a question about it.
So I want to get rid of the herokuapp.com in example.herokuapp.com, which requires that I buy the example.com domain name.
It says in the first step "Confirm that you own the custom domain name. If not, you can buy one with a domain registration service."
How does heroku know that I bought example.com in the domain registration service?
If you look at your Herokuapp.com dashboard, for your particular app, you'll find that heroku has issued you a specific domain name. Something like some-custom-string.herokudns.com. Notice that this is herokuDNS.com which is different from herokuapp.com (herokuapp.com is used to access your website publicly). Only you have access to this custom dns string.
When you buy a domain name from a registrar, it'll usually also provide a DNS server. You'll then add a CNAME record in your DNS settings to point to your heroku provided some-custom-string.herokudns.com url. Since only you've access to your DNS server settings, if Heroku finds that the cname entry is present in your DNS records, it'll be a confirmation that you own the domain. The steps to do this are described here.
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 was pointing a custom domain to my username.github.io account, by using A records in Domain Registrar (Route 53) and a CNAME in my master branch that said custom_domain.me. I want to move to https.
I created an account on cloudflare, changes the NS records on Route 53 to point to cloudflare, and changed CNAME record in my master branch to https://custom_domain.me.
I want to access https://custom_domain.me, but I cannot. I have waiting only one hour now. Am I missing something or should I just wait?
In order to use CloudFlare on a Free/Pro account; you will need to move your DNS to CloudFlare, not just simply add NS records to Route53.
Route53 commonly provide simply DNS services, you have an interesting use-case as your also using their domain name registration service.
If your domain is registered with Route53 and also using Route53 for DNS, you will need to change this so CloudFlare does your DNS by changing the nameservers.
Once with CloudFlare, your DNS will be entirely managed by CloudFlare. Run through the CloudFlare set-up, verify your DNS records and you'll be presented with 2 new CloudFlare nameservers to use.
In order to configure this, please set the nameservers in Route53 to the ones in CloudFlare: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/domain-name-servers-glue-records.html
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.