How to redirect domain with prefix www in AWS Route 53

Question

I have a problem with domain hosting in Route 53.

I need to redirect from xyz.com to www.xyz.com, so I created a Hosted Zone on Route 53. I added an A record with the address of my ELB, and a CNAME with a name of www.xyz.com and value of my ELB address.

But this set up does not redirect my naked domain to my www prefixed domain. How do I solve this issue?

This should solve your query. http://pixelcog.com/blog/2013/routing-with-s3/ — Abhishek Gupta, Apr 10 '14 at 20:46

score 13 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 16 '14 at 00:20

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I've gotten this to work using both S3 and CloudFront.

You need two buckets: www.yourdomainname.com and yourdomainname.com.

Keep your files in the www bucket. For the naked domain bucket properties, go to the "Static Website Hosting" section and select "redirect all requests to another host name", and enter www.yourdomainname.com.

answered Jan 16 '14 at 00:20

Oleg Vaskevich

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If you are like me, using a CNAME to point the www.domain.com to the host, and trying to create an Alias for the naked domain: the name of the bucket MUST BE your naked domain name (eg: domain.com). Then, create an A record, mark it as an alias and select your bucket form the dropdown. And thats it. It should work right after clicking save – chesscov77 May 23 '16 at 14:48
Can you keep your files in the naked bucket and then redirect to www? – netpoetica Mar 07 '18 at 14:20
@netpoetica what is the point of hosting the files in naked? If you don't like files belonging to www, you can create a cdn.domain.com. Let the naked be its own dumb things, solely serving redirect to www. – Aidin Apr 05 '21 at 04:04

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 26 '13 at 16:37

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This is currently not possible using only Amazon Route 53. Please have a look into this thread for additional information.

Also, please be aware that a "naked domain" (e.g. xyz.com) redirect should be handled in the HTTP layer, not in the DNS.

answered Apr 26 '13 at 16:37

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 26 '14 at 23:07

Following the steps below will resolve your problem:

Create two buckets: one for example.com and one for www.example.com
Setup example.com bucket to redirect to www.example.com
Create two distributions: one using the example.com bucket and one using the www.example.com bucket (Use the corresponding domain for the CNAME)
In route 53, A ALIAS example.com to the first CloudFront distribution and A ALIAS www.example.com to the second CloudFront distribution

After the DNS changes take effect, browse to example.com and it should redirect to www.example.com

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 31 '16 at 03:04

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I just created two A records that both point the load balancer alias.

cstructor.com A  loadbalancer-url
www.cstructor.com A loadbalancer-url

answered Aug 31 '16 at 03:04

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When accessing cstructor.com, you will NOT get to www.cstructor.com. It points to the same load-balancer, but it's not what was asked – François Gautier Oct 05 '16 at 14:54
Correct, but this is a reasonable solution. – dvallejo Oct 06 '16 at 17:51
This worked for me. I am using it with cloud front. Thanks. – Gary Vernon Grubb Sep 14 '18 at 03:10

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Oct 20 '21 at 10:28

you need to create a new Load Balancer

with Listener on port 80 http that redirect 301 to www.example.com

In case you have ssl running add another listener on port 443 that redirect 301 to www.example.com

go to Route 53

and create a Record A with naked domain the points the new load balancer

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