I've recently set up an AWS hosted zone and used Record set A (IPv4) to associate a static Elastic IP to my domain name but when I type my domain name in the browser it doesn't get resolved. I tried pinging the Elastic IP and got request time out. I've read every guideline on Amazon and they all indicate that you only need to create the Record set to use a domain. What am I doing wrong?
In order to use Route53 as your DNS, point your domain to the AWS designated addresses. Registrars require the specification of usually at least two name servers.
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I want to connect my domain (in AWS Registered Domains) to the IP address of my Ec2 instance in my AWS account; so that I can type www.my-domain.com in any browser and open my website.
I transferred a domain name from my old AWS account to a new one. Usually AWS creates a hosted zone for the domain automatically, but it didn't.
So I created my own hosted zone and and added and two A records (www.a.com and a.com) with value connected to the IP address of my Ec2 instance but the browsers didn't recognize the domain.
So I tried:
Updating the Name servers of the hosted zone to be the same as the domain name NS But same result
Updating the Name servers of the domain name to be the same as the hosted zone NS But same result
What can I do?
Thanks.
As long as the domain registrar is AWS (you can validate this by running whois against your domain) the setup should be quite simple.
Firstly it might be worth creating a new hosted zone if you've modified the NS records for it. It is important that these values are the original domains that AWS entered against the values. Also ensure the hosted zone is a public hosted zone.
Copy each of the nameserver values from your public hosted zone (there should be 4 in total). Then on your registered domain in the Route 53 console, edit the nameservers replacing the values with the values that were taken from your hosted zone. Once you have done this the new public hosted zone will be used by your domain.
Depending on any TTL caching you might find it can take a little time for clients to use this nameserver but you can test it by using a DIG command to find the NS value using an external server or the web service offered by google.
I don't know if this could count as and answer but this is what I did to fix the problem:
I created and Application Load Balancer
With Security Group with Inbound rules: HTTP TCP 80 0.0.0.0/0, ::/0
And Target Group TCP 80 Set to Ec2 instance.
Connect the A record to the ALB
This fixed my problem
I've set up my application on AWS Elastic Beanstalk. I added a load balancer and pointed a CNAME for 'www' to it. But now I need to get root pointed there too. I can't use Route53 and use AWS nameservers because the client wants to use theirs. How can I get root to my app? Can I redirect the traffic? The tech lead I'm working with suggested setting up a server to do the redirect?
Since AWS ELB's only offer DNS Record (Instead of IPs) you need to use a CNAME mapping. However with DNS, CNAMEs do not allow root domain to point to it. To overcome this AWS has provided Alias Records (Custom implementation to AWS) to point root domain to ELBs.
If your client want to use their nameservers still you can use, AWS Route53 in between to solve this with following steps.
First create a Public Hosted Zone in Route53 for your domain.
Then create a record set inside the Hosted Zone for the root domain to point to the ELB with Type = A - IPv4 Address, Alias = Yes with ELB CNAME as for the Alias value.
In the external domain management service, create a NS record to point the root domain to Route53 nameservers.
Then when the DNS resolution happens, the root DNS query will first go to external nameservers(Managed outside of Route53) and then it will be forwarded to route53 where it will resolve the ELBs IP address and sent back.
You can set up a machine with a single static IP address that does nothing but redirect requests to the www host. Then you can put an A record on the bare domain at the apex of the DNS zone pointing to that machine.
There is at least one service, http://wwwizer.com/naked-domain-redirect, that will do this for you. (I'm not affiliated with this service, but it appears to do what it claims and will serve your purpose. There are probably others like it.)
Ideally, though, you'd persuade your client to change the authoritative nameservers to point to a Route 53 hosted zone that you create for them. They are still the registrant and "owner" of their domain, and can take control back from you by simply changing the nameservers to something else.
I generally persuade clients with the explanation that our load balancer infrastructure is integrated with the DNS servers so that if a balancer node fails, or we need to add or scale up capacity, or experience a traffic surge or DDoS event, the load balancer system will automatically update the DNS records for their domain to try to mitigate the issue and keep the site up. To do otherwise is to do things in such a way that removes those layers of redundancy.
Ideally, you can set up a apache server with a static IP, and install a free SSL certificate on that web server at first.
Second you need to redirect your root domain name request to AWS ELB.
Then go to your DNS management and set up your apex point to the server you created.
It is now possible to setup a Network Load Balancer and allocate one or more Elastic IP Addresses to it (one per Availability Zone). The Network Load Balancer can have an Application Load Balancer as a target. The Application Load Balancer would target the Elastic Beanstalk. An A record can then be created in the external DNS for each Elastic IP Address of the Network Load Balancer.
If you don't need the functionality that the Application Load Balancer provides, you may be able to target Elastic Beanstalk or whatever application directly from the Network Load Balancer.
Since AWS ELB's only offer DNS Record (Instead of IPs) you need to use a CNAME mapping. However with DNS, CNAMEs do not allow root domain to point to it. To overcome this AWS has provided Alias Records (Custom implementation to AWS) to point root domain to ELBs.
If your client want to use their nameservers still you can use, AWS Route53 in between to solve this with following steps.
First create a Public Hosted Zone in Route53 for your domain.
Then create a record set inside the Hosted Zone for the root domain to point to the ELB with Type = A - IPv4 Address, Alias = Yes with ELB CNAME as for the Alias value.
I have a website hosted on AWS EC2, it has an IP which is public, I can access the website anywhere from the public IP.
I have rented a domain name and the provider gave me a console.
I am expecting this console has a field for me to enter public IP. Then it will resolve the connection between the domain name and public IP.
However, the console only provides a link called "Modify DNS", and it expects me to provide NS (at least 2). I don't know what to input at all.
In this case, how can I find 2 NS? or there should be another way to do so?
A few steps to do here:
You need to add a Hosted Zone for your domain to Route53 in the AWS Console. This hosted zone will automatically generate 3-4 random AWS DNS name servers.
Use those name servers with your domain name provider. Your domain is now pointing at AWS' name servers.
In Route53, add an A Record for your domain name which points to the IP address of the server in AWS that's hosting your website.
Note that unless you've assigned an elastic (think static) IP address to your web server in AWS, the IP will change if you stop/start it, or terminate it and replace it (just rebooting however keeps the IP).
Also note there are small charges for using Route53 and Elastic IPs.
I have a domain name registered with tmdhosting.com. And I have created a WordPress multisite setup on AWS using bitnami WordPress multisite stack.
Now I would like to point my domain name from my registrar to my AWS instance. Where they are asking me to provide them with a NS. I am new to AWS and I am not sure as to how to go about doing this.
Also did a little bit of research where it said that I will need a Route 53 (which is not free) I would want to know if there is another way to do this.
Can I use CloudFront to do this as with my previous provider had given me a cloudflare name server.
Please let me know the steps as to how to go about doing this.
To point a Domain Name to an EC2 instance, you can either use Route 53 or your own DNS service. In both cases:
Assign an Elastic IP address to your EC2 instance
In Route 53 or your own DNS service, define a domain/subdomain that points to this IP address
The above assumes that you wish to point to a single EC2 instance. If you have multiple instances with a Load Balancer in front, you will require a CNAME record pointing to the DNS name of the Load Balancer. (If using Route 53, using the "ALIAS" button to point to a Load Balancer.)
Route 53 is not free, but it is very cheap. If correctly configured to point to AWS resources, it can cost only 50c/month per hosted zone.
CloudFront is a content distribution network that caches web content. It will not assist you in assigning a Domain Name to an EC2 instance. (Custom domain names can be used with CloudFront, but that doesn't appear to be your particular question.)
I'm using EC2 of Amazon to host a website built in JSP :
http://ec2-50-17-144-64.compute-1.amazonaws.com:8080/p2p
And I bought this domain:
www.p2pbrasil.com
How can I redirect www.p2pbrasil.com to my website in Amazon EC2 ?
When someone type www.p2pbrasil.com it redirects to http://ec2-50-17-144-64.compute-1.amazonaws.com:8080/p2p ?
You need to do two things
In the Amazon Web Service admin panel, create an elastic IP in the same region as your instance and associate that IP with your that instance (IPs cost nothing while they are associated with an instance, but do cost if not).
Add a A record to the DNS record of your domain mapping the domain to the elastic IP address assigned in (1). Your domain provide should either give you some way to set the A record (the IP address), or it will give you a way to edit the nameservers of your domain.
If they do not allow you to set the A record directly, find a DNS management service like ZoneEdit, register your domain as a zone there and ZoneEdit will give you the nameservers to enter in the admin panel of your domain provider. You can then add the A record for the domain in ZoneEdit.
I only mention ZoneEdit because the basic service is free, you could also use Amazon route 53 or a similar pay-for service, if you preferred.
Create an Elastic IP on the AWS Panel, then associate it to your instance.
Then use a DNS management service to add your domain and Ip address (Elastic IP), then on the domain provider panel add the DNS provided from the DNS management service.
I recommend EntryDNS which is actually free.
As you have your server on AWS best option is to use Route53 hosted zone.By doing this you can manage all your DNS entries using AWS. In future if you plan to use ELB's for your application, you can various traffic routing options using Route53.
Create Hosted Zone and get the name servers.
Replace current name servers with AWS nameservers from your Domain registrars DNS entries.
Create an A record in AWS hosted zone and give your servers IP (Elastic IP) as value.
For detailed instruction, you can follow this blog post. Mapping Domain Name to EC2 Server
Assuming this is a hobby website and your domain registrar isn't AWS.
If your registrar (for example godaddy.com) provides a DNS manager you simply need to add a CNAME record for www that points to the aws public DNS record for your instance. For example ec2-50-17-144-64.compute-1.amazonaws.com
This will make http://www.p2pbrasil.com display the same content as http://ec2-50-17-144-64.compute-1.amazonaws.com
Doing it this way you don't have to pay for an elastic IP, which is a dedicated resource. Your IP on your ec2 instance shouldn't change but could if you restart your instance.
Put the public IP from your EC2 instance as an A name to your root domain in Route 53 hosted zone.
This change might take some time.