AWS Route53 pointing to a elastic beanstalk webapp

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I've got a web applicaiton set up on elastic beanstalk. I've a domain on route53, and I've followed the guides more or less here: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/customdomains.html

The URL to the webapp works fine, but the DNS is not pointing me to it. To be honest, I'm not sure where to even begin looking at how to fix this. I've tried to use the 'Check response from Route 53' feature and I can't see anything out of the ordinary. I've attached a lot of pics.

Any idea?

Please see here for the images, I couldn't upload them here. I kepy getting format errors.

http://imgur.com/a/NwCbb

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The name is still not resolving. I've added an A type record set and selected the elastic beanstlak as the alais.

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Credit to imperalix for this.

Amazon registered the wrong name servers for my site. I needed to go to

https://www.whois.net/

and search for my www.thetellyourstory.com

I got the values for my name server there: Name Server: NS-1487.AWSDNS-57.ORG Name Server: NS-187.AWSDNS-23.COM Name Server: NS-1891.AWSDNS-44.CO.UK Name Server: NS-802.AWSDNS-36.NET

Then, go into route 53 and update the name server values: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/domain-name-servers-glue-records.html

It's important to update the name server values only as above. You can edit them directly from http://imgur.com/a/a41z2 here but it does not update the values.

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It looks like your registrar, Amazon, has the wrong name servers configured [1]. I compared your whois information with your screenshot. I would recommend updating your name servers[2] for your domain to match what your zone has configured.

Update your registrar to (this is from your screenshot of Route 53 DNS):

  • ns-1487.awsdns-57.org.
  • ns-187.awsdns-23.com.
  • ns-1891.awsdns-44.co.uk.
  • ns-802.awsdns-36.net.

Your Route 53 DNS configuration look fine[3].

  1. $ whois thetellyourstory.com

  2. http://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/domain-name-servers-glue-records.html

  3. http://digwebinterface.com/?hostnames=www.thetellyourstory.com.&type=&useresolver=8.8.4.4&ns=self&nameservers=ns-187.awsdns-23.com

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  • Change the NS record to just tellyourstory.com, i.e. remove the "www." from the name value.
  • Delete the CNAME record with the name cname.www.tellyourstory.com
  • Change the A record www.tellyourstory.com to a CNAME record. This record doesn't need to be an alias. It just needs to have the value of your elastic beanstalk app.

How long ago did you register this domain name and create these records? For a new domain name it can take 24 hours or so for DNS records to start resolving.