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yegor256
Asked: 2011-11-23 00:42:11 +0800 CST

How to configure bare domain address in Route 53?

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I want to configure a redirection from example.com to www.example.com (since CNAME is not allowed for top-level domains). How can I do this in AWS Route 53 (or any other DNS provider, in general)?

domain-name-system amazon-route53

2 Answers

  1. You can't.

    Think about it, I'll try to explain with an example. This is what you want:

    example.com                   CNAME                 www
www                           A                     1.2.3.4

    All traffic going to example.com would be redirected to www.example.com. Mail and other subdomains would be impacted.

    To solve your problem, what you could do is the following:

    example.com                   A                     1.2.3.4
www                           A                     1.2.3.4

    Then you could set up a vhost in apache (if you are using that. I'm sure most software has a capability like this) that redirects all traffic that hits on example.com to www.example.com.

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  2. Best Answer

    I'm using wwwizer.com for bare domain forwarding

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