amazon-route53
RRSet of type CNAME with DNS name foo.com. is not permitted at apex in zone bar.com
As per RFC1912 section 2.4: A CNAME record is not allowed to coexist with any other data. In other words, if suzy.podunk.xx is an alias for sue.podunk.xx, you can’t also have an MX record for suzy.podunk.edu, or an A record, or even a TXT record. Especially do not try to combine CNAMEs and NS records … Read more
Serving a multitude of static sites from a wildcard domain in AWS
CloudFront + Lambda@Edge + S3 can do this “serverless.” Lambda@Edge is a CloudFront enhancement that allows attributes of requests and responses to be represented and manipulated as simple JavaScript objects. Triggers can be provisioned to fire during request processing, either before the cache is checked (“viewer request” trigger) or before the request proceeds to the … Read more
Can I have a route53 subdomain in a different Hosted Zone?
Create a hosted zone for test.example.com. Note the 4 name servers that Route 53 assigns to it the new hosted zone. Back in the master zone, create a new resource record, with hostname “test” using record type NS, and enter the 4 name servers that Route 53 assigned, in the box below. You just delegated … Read more
Cloudfront redirect www to naked domain with ssl [closed]
To host website on AWS so that: https://www.example.com, http://www.example.com and http://example.com all redirect to https://example.com you need to: Create two S3 buckets named: example.com and www.example.com. Turn on the Static Website Hosting on these two buckets. Configure redirect in bucket www.example.com to: https://example.com. In the bucket properties choose Static Website Hosting => Redirect all requests … Read more
Set up DNS based URL forwarding in Amazon Route53 [closed]
I was running into the exact same problem that Saurav described, but I really needed to find a solution that did not require anything other than Route 53 and S3. I created a how-to guide for my blog detailing what I did. Here is what I came up with. Objective Using only the tools available … Read more
Amazon AWS Route 53 Hosted Zone does not work
You have successfully transfered the domain to Gandi, but your domain is still configured with GD nameservers. Check this: Log in to your AWS web console Select Route53 service Select Hosted Zones in the left pane Select verticeinteractive.co.uk (but do not click on the domain name, just select the radio button) Notice the 4 name … Read more