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Point Domain to Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2 Instance
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Point Domain to Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2 Instance

  1. Open the Amazon Route 53 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/route53/.
  2. If you are new to Amazon Route 53, you see a welcome page; choose Get Started Now for DNS Management. Otherwise, choose Hosted Zones in the navigation pane.
  3. Choose Create Hosted Zone.
  4. For Domain Name, type your domain name.
  5. Choose Create.
  6. Click the Hosted Zone, edit record set.
  7. In the value, add ec2-54-152-134-146.compute-1.amazonaws.com.
  8. Change your DNS file to point to the IPv4 address (This would be in something like GoDaddy).
@liujchen
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liujchen commented Jun 9, 2018 •
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seem like without using Amazon Route 53, you can use http://my.freenom.com/ to

  1. Obtain a free Domain Name
  2. Mapping Domain Name with Public IP/Elastic IP for EC2 Instance

@warungcloud
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Hi @liujchen.

If we try to use IPv4 Public IP without using Public IP/Elastic IP for our EC2 instance, is it working ?

@ianemv
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ianemv commented Nov 11, 2018

Agree with liujchen.. tried the same. I thought of using Route 53 but opted to do it when I was able to use A record instead.

@mayurwadhe
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mayurwadhe commented Nov 28, 2018 •
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Nice, thanks for the support. It works

@pnandhini11
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I am getting timeout error when tried to reach my domain ( created using freenom) from AWS. Anyone got into similar situation? Anything i missed out in my settings? I followed these steps for free domain setup : https://medium.com/@kcabading/getting-a-free-domain-for-your-ec2-instance-3ac2955b0a2f

Any help?

@benzntech
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Nice Thanks for the Work.

@boraozkan
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thank for help

@Narayan-Zade
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Thanks

@TareqNaushad
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Thanks. It worked for me. However I am using a PHP Code Igniter application in AWS EC2 so proper URL address is something like www.mydomain.com/abcdefgh . When i put /abcdefgh it is not taking . What to do so that when in browser i write www,mydomain.com it should actually execute www.mydomain.com/abcdefgh ?

@MxBlu
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MxBlu commented May 5, 2019

@TareqNaushad Have a look at setting up nginx on your EC2 instance, you can do so such that any requests to www.mydomain.com heads to www.mydomain.com/abcdefgh instead.

@ndnaren2k
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@TareqNaushad try using htaccess for it, it will help you with the url masking & execute your script using domain name itself instead of full directory url.

@TheAshwanik
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Thanks. It worked for me. However I am using a PHP Code Igniter application in AWS EC2 so proper URL address is something like www.mydomain.com/abcdefgh . When i put /abcdefgh it is not taking . What to do so that when in browser i write www,mydomain.com it should actually execute www.mydomain.com/abcdefgh ?

You need to redirect the traffic to sub directory obviously. You can use Nginx, haproxy etc..

@sharkdeng
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Hi, I tried your method, but it doesn't work. My website edu3d.co still not working. Any suggestions? Thanks

@dewanshDT
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yay 🙌

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