I have my domain registered and hosted at Hostpapa.
I have my web hosting in AWS S3. All set up as below:
Created a bucket in AWS S3 (named myDomain.org for example) with all the website content uploaded.
I'm able to access with URL like
http://myDOmain.org.s3-website.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com
The question is how do I point the domain in Hostpapa to AWS S3 website?
Thanks
The first thing to point out is that if you're trying to create a record for a root (or apex record) e.g. example.com you will need to ensure your domain service supports either ANAME or Alias records as traditionally only an A record (or AAAA for IPv6) will be supported for this record.
If your host supports one of these types (or is a subdomain e.g. subdomain.example.com in which case you can also use a CNAME record) you create the record and then use the CNAME provided as the value for your record.
If you are not able to configure in your current DNS provider, Route 53 does support Alias records so would be possible to add this for you.
It turns out straight forward.
In AWS S3
Create 2 buckets
myDomain.org
www.myDomain.org
Enable static web hosting in www bucket
Configure redirect for myDomain.org bucket to www
Upload website to www bucket
Copy www url (also called CNAME) like www.myDomain.org.s3-website.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com
In Hostpapa (or whatever the domain register)
Configure sub domain www to the above url (CNAME)
Wait couple of hours for propagation.
Works prefect!!!
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I have the static website hosted on S3 which is displaying correctly using the Amazon s3 link.
As per Amazon docs, I created two buckets, example.io & www.example.io. The example.io has the content (files) for the website; the www.example.io bucket is redirecting to the phlo.io bucket.
I am trying to configure Godaddy Apex domain DNS settings to redirect to the S3 bucket. As an example, the domain is http://example.io & I entered the settings in Godaddy domain DNS in the following form:
Type: CNAME
Name: www
value: example.io.s3-website.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com
TTL: 1 hour
However, the website is not displaying on the link http://example.io. How do I configure the apex domain to display the static website?
You can't, sorry...
AWS do not provide an IP Address that you can add as the Apex A Record. This causes issues using S3, CloudFront, ELB, and API Gateway.
If you are using AWS Route53, you can set the Apex A Record as an "alias" to those other services in your AWS account. This is an AWS bespoke service to get around only being able to set an A Record IP Address as the Apex Address.
So you can either move your DNS to AWS, or use a www redirection service. This will provide you with an IP Address which will respond with a redirection to your www.example.io address. People often use services like wwwizer.com to do this for free: http://wwwizer.com/naked-domain-redirect
On further investigation, it turns out that GoDaddy offers http redirection in its DNS service. Here is a guide to setting up naked domain name redirection to the www sub domain: https://help.ghost.org/article/17-custom-domains-using-godaddy
Steps to follow to redirect all traffic from www.yourdomain.com to www.yours3bucket.amazonaws.com
Create a bucket with the same name as your domain name(in this case www.yourdomain.com), make it public and host it.
Go to Godaddy DNS Server and Enter a CNAME Entry with host as www, Points to as www.yours3bucket.amazonaws.com and TTL as default.
(This is to redirect all the traffic to your AWS S3 Bucket, It will only work with www.yourdomain.com and not with yourdomain.com if you do not set a forwarding as mentioned on step 3)
Now also add a 301 forwarding to http://www.yourdomain.com or https://www.yourdomain.com.
(This is to forward yourdomain.com to www.yourdomain.com)
I have one registered domain in AWS, for example www.example.com
I am wondering if it is possible to connect more then one S3 buckets to it through Route 53.
My domain www.example.com is created as a CNAME record with the value example.com in Route53.
And I already have a Load Balancer with the name example.com connected to it, as an A IPv-4 address, so I can`t create another record with the same name.
I was wondering if adding a prefix, e.g exercise., so www.exercise.example.com would work and naming the S3 bucket the same name?
And doing so for each new bucket, of course with a different prefix/name each time?
If you put AWS cloudfront in front of your website, you will have much more flexibility - including using content from multiple buckets/origins and using subdomains as you suggested.
With cloudfront there is no requirement that the s3 bucket name match the domain, so it gives you more flexibility.
I'm getting 400 Bad Request and "The specified bucket exists in another region. Please direct requests to the specified endpoint." when going to my domain: http://www.*.com/. I have the CNAME record on namecheap set to: .com.s3-website.us-east-2.amazonaws.com, which works fine when I type it in the browser. It seems like it's going to www..com.s3-website.us-east-2.amazonaws.com instead, (with the www added), because you get the same error if you type that into the address bar. I spoke with namecheap support, and he told me to change the CNAME host to # and delete the url redirect record because "it might be that the configuration of your website requires bare domain name not WWW". That didn't work. I also have namecheaps private email and he mentioned "your Email Service won't work if you have CNAME for the Root Domain". He told me to contact AWS support (I dont have tech support plan) and tell them to "Please contact your Hosting provider to change records from their side from Root Domain to www" and "you should change CNAME mapping from Root Domain to the WWW."
So I'm stumped here. Can anyone help me here? Is there a way to do what he said and will it fix my problem? Thanks.
This error means that you have configured the CNAME record in your DNS server to use the wrong S3 static web site endpoint.
Your CNAME is using us-east-2. In what region is the bucket located?
Go to the Amazon Console.
In S3 bucket properties, click on static web site hosting.
Copy the URL for your web site.
Go to your DNS Server.
Go to the record for www.
Make sure that the CNAME matches the static web site URL.
[EDIT after a series of comments]
If you create a bucket with the name www.hibachiandyou.com then the domain must exactly match the S3 bucket name. If you want to also have a the domain hibachiandyou.com, then you need another bucket with the exact same name. You cannot use DNS redirects to get from one to the other. Use any other convention and it will not work.
The domain apex (hibachiandyou.com) cannot be a CNAME. Amazon Route 53 supports using ALIAS records for the domain apex. I am not aware of any other DNS server that supports ALIAS records. Recommendation, move your DNS servers to Route 53.
You can use a redirect with S3 to redirect one static web site to another web site. Review section 2.3 in this link.
Setting up a Static Website Using a Custom Domain
I have a static website hosted in S3 inside the bucket client1.examplecorp.com with a corresponding R53 record client1.examplecorp.com. A ALIAS s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com.
I want my client's (client1.com) webadmin to create a dns record for the subdomain quotes.client1.com which will point to AWS (The client1.com does not use R53).
Should it point to client1.examplecorp.com ?
Or directly at the S3 bucket endpoint ?
The concept is that, the final user will see only the quotes.client1.com subdomain and not know about client1.examplecorp.com .
I hope I describe it well enough...
I have read the AWS docs about Setting Up a Static Website Using a Custom Domain , Virtual Hosting of Buckets and also this SO post.
I have a feeling that what I am searching for is described here How to redirect domains using Amazon Web Services .
I just do not understand how the registrar of the client will redirect traffic for that specific subdomain (quotes.client1.com) to client1.examplecorp.com by adding the 4 nameservers.
Moreover, will the redirect affect only this subdomain or the whole client1.com .
Finally, will it be completely transparent? Meaning that, the client1.examplecorp.com will not be shown to the end user?
I have not a firm grasp on explaining it , so please bear with me.
Here are two possible solutions:
In these examples, the client's main domain is example.com.
Option 1:
Create a bucket whose name is the same as the desired hostname, and have the client create a CNAME record pointing to the web site endpoint for the bucket.
Bucket name:
quotes.example.com
Web site endpoint (assuming us-east-1 region):
quotes.example.com.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com.
Client DNS:
quotes.example.com. CNAME quotes.example.com.s3-website-us-east-1.example.com.
The client does not need to be using Route 53 for their DNS, but the bucket name must exactly match the hostname they are pointing to the bucket, because that is how S3 works.
Option 2:
Send the traffic through CloudFront. In this scenario, the bucket name does not matter, because CloudFront will translate it to the correct bucket name.
Bucket name:
example-bucket
Web site endpoint:
example-bucket.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com
New CloudFront Distribution system-assigned hostname:
djozxyqkexample.cloudfront.net
CloudFront Origin (do not select the bucket name from the dropdown list, type in the S3 website hostname as shown in the S3 console):
example-bucket.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com
CloudFront alternate domain name:
quotes.example.com
Client creates a DNS CNAME
quotes.example.com. CNAME djozxyqkexample.cloudfront.net.
This solution also does not require that the client use Route 53, and -- importantly -- the bucket name does not need to match the hostname -- the hostname simply needs to be configured as a CloudFront alternate domain name so that CloudFront recognizes the Host: header when it arrives.
If you want to reuse the same bucket for multiple sites, you can add more hostnames to the CloudFront alternate domain name setting, or you can create multiple distributions pointing to the same bucket.
Note also that using CloudFront in front of S3 is effectively free, because S3 will no longer bill you for bandwidth when you use CloudFront -- instead, CloudFront will bill you for bandwidth, at the CloudFront rate, which is often slightly lower that the S3 rate.
In both cases, above, the client does not need to use Route 53, because they hostname in question is not the zone apex hostname (the "naked domain"). To use a naked domain with either solution requires Route 53, but that isn't applicable here.
Unfortunately, I think this is not possible. I am assuming that you own the corporation domain in this case.
For you to use client1.corporation.com, you had to use Route 53, right?
You also could not configure some DNS record in your other NameServer and do the same.
Similarly, for you to use quotes.client1.com point to the S3 bucket, you also need to ask the client use Route 53.
Hope that helped
Cheers!
I have created a S3 bucket named "test.download.abc.com". The purpose of this bucket is to simply serve the executables (exes) when a user clicks on a link Download to download the file. Here the href attribute as one can see is "https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/test.download.abc.com/MyFolder/MyClient.exe"
My intention here is to change the url that the user sees on hover to "http://test.download.abc.com/MyFolder/MyClient.exe" - one way of achieveing it is to have this url on the href and redirect it to the download file on click- which is working.
I would like to know if there is any record set "Cname" or "Alias" that I can create on the "Route 53" of AWS to achieve the same. I read about virtual hosting articles for which the bucket needs to be configured as a static site- which doesn't seem right for my purpose in addition to not having default site page. What is the right approach for me to achieve the same? Thank you all.
The solution here is deceptively simple.
All you need to do is set up the hostname in your DNS servers as a CNAME referencing the bucket's REST endpoint virtual hostname.
For a bucket named "bucket.example.com," in the "example.com" DNS zone, add:
bucket IN CNAME bucket.example.com.s3.amazonaws.com.
[...] the bucket for the request is the lowercase value of the Host header, and the key for the request is the Request-URI. This interpretation is useful when you have registered the same DNS name as your bucket name and have configured that name to be a CNAME alias for Amazon S3
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/VirtualHosting.html
This is not the same as static web site hosting. It's using a CNAME to reference the REST endpoint of the bucket directly. This, of course, only works for subdomains, since a CNAME doesn't belong at the apex of a domain.
If you don't want to go the static site route, you can setup a cloudfront distribution that serves the content of your s3 bucket, and then setup a custom name.
More here:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/CNAMEs.html
In CloudFront, an alternate domain name, also known as a CNAME, lets
you use your own domain name (for example, www.example.com) for links
to your objects instead of using the domain name that CloudFront
assigns to your distribution. Both web and RTMP distributions support
alternate domain names.
When you create a distribution, CloudFront returns a domain name for
the distribution, for example:
d111111abcdef8.cloudfront.net
When you use the CloudFront domain name for your objects, the URL for
an object called /images/image.jpg is:
http://d111111abcdef8.cloudfront.net/images/image.jpg
If you want to use your own domain name, such as www.example.com,
instead of the cloudfront.net domain name that CloudFront assigned to
your distribution, you can add an alternate domain name to your
distribution for www.example.com. You can then use the following URL
for /images/image.jpg:
http://www.example.com/images/image.jpg
CloudFront is not required to meet your requirement, you can just enable S3 to serve static web content as described here
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/HowDoIWebsiteConfiguration.html
You would also need to configure Route 53 with a CNAME or A alias record to your bucket
See this sample that combine S3 and Route 53 : http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/website-hosting-custom-domain-walkthrough.html