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Derek Li
Asked: 2012-03-02 01:47:50 +0800 CST

Amazon Route 53 Forward Subdomain

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I bought a domain from GoDaddy, say abc.com.

I was able to forward profile.abc.com to http://www.linkedin.com/in/myname.

Not I've changed my domain nameserver to Amazon Route 53, I want to do the same thing but wasn't able to do so, here's what I've tried:

Create a new record set, name is profile.abc.com, type is CNAME, value is http://www.linkedin.com/in/myname.

But this doesn't work.

I have another CNAME, hg.abc.com, which points to my BitBucket (value = www.bitbucket.com), that one works.

domain-name-system nameserver amazon-route53

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    The contents of the CNAME record cannot be a URL. It must point to another name in the DNS, just like hg.abc.com does.

    It sounds like what you want to do is host a web site at profile.abc.com which redirects all incoming requests to http://www.linkedin.com/in/myname. If so, that's exactly what you should do:

    1. Set up a web server somewhere (e.g. Apache)
    2. Configure it to redirect all incoming requests (e.g. using Apache's Redirect directive)
    3. Either:
      • Install a CNAME record for profile.abc.com that points to the canonical name of the server that hosts the web site, OR
      • Install A and AAAA records for profile.abc.com that give the IP addresses of the server that hosts the web site.
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