I'm in the process of moving from another cloud provider. Currently I'm just testing in the default environment that has a url looking like this:
http://example-env-1.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
I'm trying to get SSL/HTTPS working for this address. I then plan using a CNAME to redirect to this address and eventually move the nameservers over completely.
However, after setting everything else up successfully I get to the point of adding the certificates and it just says "failed":
And even though I have my actual "example.com" ssl certificate successfully issued nothing shows up in the load balancer certificate selection dropdown (and yes I have refreshed):
How do I enable SSL using the Certificate Manager?
That's because you are trying to request a cert for the elasticbeanstalk.com domain. You will not be able to get a cert for that domain as you are not the owner of it :). Nor can you setup https for the default elastic beanstalk domains they give you.
You should use ACM to get a certificate for your custom domain, the one you plan on making a CNAME record for.
Example:
If you were to own say the domain amyneville.com. You could create a cert through ACM for that domain.
If you use your custom domain, you do NOT need a to get a cert for the elasticbeanstalk.com domain.
A couple more things:
You cannot create a CNAME record on a TLD (amyneville.com). You can create the CNAME record for www.amyneville.com. So if you want to use the CNAME approach you will have to create a non-www redirect to www..
But better then a CNAME would be to use an A record and point it to the elastic beanstalk resource that was setup. So the load balancer that was created for you, use it's A record.
Last but not least, you cannot apply the ACM cert through the elastic beanstalk console. Instead you will have to use the AWS CLI tools. Here's a link on how to do it: https://stackoverflow.com/a/35173500/1445460
I was looking for this myself and found this useful blog post from one of the Amazon team ...
https://medium.com/#arcdigital/enabling-ssl-via-aws-certificate-manager-on-elastic-beanstalk-b953571ef4f8#.frcj0rj4t
Whilst you can't use the console to select the certificate as stated in your question you can use the Elastic Beanstalk CLI to set the certificate to one you have created in Certificate Manager.
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Apologies on the broad title;my question is mainly around validating domain names in AWS Certificate Manager such that I can get valid ACM going. These are currently in Heroku and need to be migrated into AWS.
The Heroku ACM will validate a custom domain and issue a certificate if the DNS for said custom domain is a CNAME to the Heroku app's main domain. For example, if I have my-heroku-app.com and I make a CNAME from example.com to that then Heroku will successfully generate a cert and I can visit https://example.com with proper TLS. This can be verified with a simple curl -Iv https://example.com which shows a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt.
Conversely the AWS Certificate Manager requires a specific CNAME record and value to be set on a domain in order for it to generate certificates for that domain. Until that happens, I do not see a way to use things like API Gateway or ELB with said domain.
Is there a way I can migrate these domain certificates into AWS Certificate Manager from Heroku, e.g. without having to go through the typical validation process for each one of them? The main Heroku app domain is one which is going to be pointed to AWS via API Gateway and at that point all of those custom domains will fail because they're not registered in AWS API + Certificate Manager.
Conversely the AWS Certificate Manager requires a specific CNAME record and value to be set on a domain in order for it to generate certificates for that domain. Until that happens, I do not see a way to use things like API Gateway or ELB with said domain.
There is absolutely nothing stopping you from creating the ACM validation CNAME records in your DNS service, to complete the creation of the certificate in ACM, while still leaving all your current DNS records in place. The ACM validation record is just a new DNS record, it doesn't replace any of your existing records, and it is only used for validation that you own the domain name, it isn't used for actual routing of any network requests.
Is there a way I can migrate these domain certificates into AWS Certificate Manager from Heroku, e.g. without having to go through the typical validation process for each one of them?
You have to go through the validation for each one, there is no getting around that. You could script it if you have a lot of them.
The main Heroku app domain is one which is going to be pointed to AWS via API Gateway and at that point all of those custom domains will fail because they're not registered in AWS API + Certificate Manager.
This is incorrect. You don't have to "register a domain to AWS Certificate Manager" in order to validate the certificate and get the certificate. ACM isn't validating that you have a domain pointing to an AWS API before it issues you the certificate. It is just validating that you own the domain name, via a new CNAME record that is only used for domain ownership validation.
I suggest you start the certificate creation process in ACM, and look at the CNAME record it asks you to create. You will see that it is totally unrelated to any of your current DNS records, and does not conflict with them.
I've deployed my Django app on AWS Elastic Beanstalk Linux instance. I've used Route 53 to point it to a custom domain from GoDaddy.
Now I want to use SSL for my website.
I don't want to use Load Balancers for SSL since I'm using only 1 instance and it's costly to pay $18/month.
So what I did is using Let's Encrypt SSL by adding 00_apache_ssl.config file in my .ebextensions folder.
I've followed this tutorial to use the SSL. My SSL is working perfectly for Elastic Beanstalk URL. But the problem is it's not working for my custom domain.
My EB Url is showing secure connection while it's custom domain is showing Insecure connection.
What I'm lacking of? Do I need to do some changes in Route 53 Record sets as well?
Thank you.
Edit 1: My custom domain is showing the Let's encrypt certificate as Invalid Certificate.
According to your tutorial, you have got an SSL certificate for your elasticbeanstalk domain, not your custom domain.
If you want to access your website via your custom domain with https (for e.g https://my-cust-doamin.com), you have to get a certificate for your domain.
You can obtain SSL certificate from any provider who sells SSL certificates.
Note: You can also get a wildcard certificate(*.my-cust-domain.com), which could be used with any of your sub domains.
reference:
https://rickchristianson.wordpress.com/2013/10/31/getting-a-django-app-to-use-https-on-aws-elastic-beanstalk/
I have an ELB instance installed on my AWS account (http://editoradbosco.us-east-2.elasticbeanstalk.com), and it is working normally. My domain is installed on Hostgator (https://centrodombosco.org), and on this, I have a CNAME that points to my AWS endpoint (http://editora.centrodombosco.org).
However, I need to use an HTTPS (SSL) protocol. How can I proceed? I have an SSL contracted on Hostgator for this subdomain, but Hostgator has informed me that I need to make adjustments to AWS so that it works, but I do not know how to proceed.
How can I make this work?
I tried to create an SSL by Certificate Manager on AWS, appointing the CNAMES on my DNS Panel on Hostgator. But it fails. I guess its not possible to use AWS Certificates outside AWS Domains.
There are two ways you can do this.
Since you already have an SSL from Host Gator, you can import that certificate to AWS Certificate Manager (instructions here). Once you import a certificate it is immediately considered validated and you can immediately proceed to configure your EB environments Load Balancer to terminate HTTPS as described here.
Alternatively, if you’d like to use Amazon Certificate Manager but for some reason the DNS validation isn’t working, or its not possible for you to validate ownership of the domain using the DNS method, Amazon Certificate Manager also offers you the option to use email to validate your ownership of the domain, as described here. Once your ownership of the domain is validated you can then proceed to configure your EB environments Load Balancer to terminate HTTPS as described here.
As a side note, you may wish to consider using Route53 to handle DNS for your domain. Route53 is tightly integrated with AWS services such as ACM and, as is the case with ACM, services requiring custom DNS entries will often offer to make the correct DNS entries directly in to your Route53 hosted zone on your behalf.
I have create a AWS elastic search domain in Virginia and got a Endpoint url.
Now I wanted to configure the Route53 behavior around it, so that a caller can use the same url, even though there is some change in elastic search or in case of a disaster recovery.
So,
Virginia Route 53 -- 1 Points to -- Virgina Elastic Search Domain URL
Oregon Route 53 -- 2 Points to -- Oregon Elastic Search Domain URL
Main Route 53 -- 3 Points to -- Route 53 1 or 2
I have already create these and also created and uploaded SSL certificate with correct SAN entries. But when I execute,
curl https://mainroute53/health
curl https://virginiaroute53/health
curl https://oregonroute53/health
I am getting this error,
curl: (51) Unable to communicate securely with peer: requested domain name does not match the server's certificate.
But when I am calling the Elastic Search URL directly its working. So I understand this is a issue with the way I am using the certificate. Any help appreciated.
Your Elastic Search endpoint will always return the Elastic Search SSL certificate.
So when you create a Route 53 "alias" for it, you may be connecting to it via your custom DNS entry, but Elastic Search will still use the Elastic Search SSL certificate.
Since the DNS endpoint you're using does not match the SSL certificate, you get that error.
You could use the --insecure curl flag to have it not check the SSL certificate, however, there are risks of doing that.
You can probably work around this by setting up a proxy server in front of the Elasticsearch domain, although it's kind of silly since there appears to also be an ELB inside the Elasticsearch domain. Ah well.
The domain Amazon ES creates for you includes the nodes in the Elasticsearch cluster and resources from several AWS services. When Amazon ES creates your domain, it launches instances into a service-controlled VPC. Those instances are fronted by Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), and the endpoint for the load balancer is published through Route 53. Requests to the domain pass through the ELB load balancer, which routes them to the domain’s EC2 instances.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/set-access-control-for-amazon-elasticsearch-service/
One way you can access Elasticsearch using your custom domain name is to use an API Gateway as an HTPP proxy. But then you have to deal with the authentication part since the Cognito cookies for ES will be pointing to the original domain (*.es.amazonaws.com).
In my experience this is doable and you should be able to use API Gateway (plus Custom Domain Names and Route 53) to achieve what you want (having a custom domain name over ES). It's just that it requires some Cognito knowledge and most likely, some coding (to handle the cookie problem).
You can use the http endpoint instead of the https one
i.e
curl **http**://mainroute53/health
This works around the fact that AWS does not allow providing custom domain certificate in its managed Elastic service
We had the same issue, wanted to be redirected to Kibana with a more friendlier DNS name and we used the solution with S3 bucket and the redirection as described here.
The steps:
Create a S3 bucket with any name.
In the bucket properties, enable “Static Website hosting”.
In the Static WebSite hosting properties, select the option to “Redirect Requests”.
In the target domain set the Kibana URL that is given from your elasticsearch domain: i.e. https://vpc-es-randomstring.us-east-1.es.amazonaws.com/_plugin/kibana/
Set Protocol to https
Then follow the steps from Step 5 on the guide above
My iOS software platform runs on AWS Elastic Beanstalk and has a URL we'll call "something.elasticbeanstalk.com". I have a website we'll call "website.com" I purchased and operate the DNS records for through Namecheap. I need to make the URL my iOS client apps use to connect to the server HTTPS since Apple is requiring this soon due to App Transport Security.
WHAT I THINK I'M SUPPOSED TO DO
What I think I'm supposed to do is, create an SSL certificate for "website.com" and apply that SSL certificate to the AWS EB load balancer. Then I need to create a subdomain for "website.com" that redirects traffic to "something.elasticbeanstalk.com". Client apps connect to the subdomain of "website.com" which is now HTTPS and redirects to "something.elsastic.beanstalk.com". Is that correct?
WHAT I'VE DONE SO FAR
So far, I created a SSL certificate for "website.com" using AWS Certificate Manager. For this I had to verify my email address associated with "website.com". I then applied that SSL certificate to my environment's load balancer int the AWS Management Console. After that, I went into Namecheap and followed this guide in the 'Domain Name & AWS 53 Management' section to do it.
I read in this article that I needed to create an alias and/or set up Nameservers in AWS Route53. I tried doing that but don't know what I'm doing and it seems to conflict with the Medium article I linked above that I followed telling me to change the CNAME record for the URL and the Redirect URL record for "website.com".
QUESTION
What do I do from here?
SITUATION
-I have a Parse Server on Elastic Beanstalk with URL “something.elasticbeanstalk.com”
-I have a domain with Namecheap called “website.com”
WHAT I NEEDED
I needed to make my client app connect to an HTTPS address since Apple is requiring it shortly with App Transport Security. Since I couldn’t get an SSL certificate using AWS certificate manager for “something.elasticbeanstalk.com”, I created one for “website.com”. I then needed to have my client app connect to the HTTPS “website.com” which would forward it over to “something.elasticbeanstalk.com”. This satisfied the HTTPS requirements of Apple.
HOW TO DO IT
Make an SSL certificate for “website.com” using AWS Certificate Manager. You will need to confirm the domain via a confirmation email to the administrator for it.
Apple the SSL certificate for “website.com” to the AWS EB Load Balancer. Go to your AWS EB Console, click "configuration", click "Load Balancing" under the "Network Tier" category. Now under the first category which is "Load Balancer", select the SSL record you made and apply it in the "SSL certificate ID" section.
Set a CNAME record for “website.com” with a host of whatever subdomain of “website.com” you want. I chose “data” as my host value and subdomain (so my subdomain is “data.website.com”). Set the value of the CNAME record to “something.elasticbeanstalk.com”. Wait for it to propagate. It’s usually pretty fast but not always.
(I’m unsure if this particular step is proper but it worked for me) Set the serverURL of Parse-Server to “https://something.elasticbeanstalk.com” and the publicServerURL to “https://data.something.com”
In the Parse “initializeWithConfiguration” method in your client app that enables the app to connect to the server, change the server URL to “https://data.something.com/parse”. NOTE: include the “/parse” which is the MOUNT PATH of the parse-server. This value MAY BE DIFFERENT for you depending on how you set it but I set it to “/parse” since that’s what I saw in the Parse-Server docs.
NOTES
-I deleted all Route53 records since they are irrelevant here since “something.com” DNS services are controlled by Namecheap.
-A Redirect URL record in Namecheap is unnecessary