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Asked: 2020-01-08 14:23:23 +0800 CST

Route 53: How are these separate domains related?

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I have three separate domains in Route 53:

  • domain1.com
  • domain2.com
  • domain3.com

They all have an A record that points to the same IP address. In addition, they have a CNAME record that points to their respective A records.

Recently I removed the record for domain1.com. (I don't want users to browse the site via that URL while I am working on it).

However, when I try to browse domain2.com (or domain3, for that matter), I get a 301 response, redirecting me to domain1.com. Since the A record for domain1 no longer exists, I get a "server not found" response.

This happens when I try to browse the IP address directly too, even from a device which has not browsed any of the three domains before.

Why is this so? And what can I do about it?

domain-name-system

1 Answers

  1. The site runs wordpress. Evidently, if wordpress receives a request from a non-default domain (e.g. domain2), it issues a 301 to the default domain (i.e. domain1). This was the problem.

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