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In this post it says its best to use CNAME only for Ec2 / route 53 setup: EC2/Route53: How do I assign my new domain name to an instance?.

However, I added:

*.mysite.org. CNAME ec2-174-129-38-xxx.compute-1.amazonaws.com.

...to my Route 53 DNS config and **www.**mysite.org works but mysite.org does not and the site 301's to non-www (mysite.org) so essentially nothing works.

Am I missing something? I guess I DO need an A record to the elastic IP?

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Yes, you need an A record. CNAMEs can't be used for the root record of a domain.

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