AWS hosted website not working with non-www. But working fine with www

Question

My domain is with godaddy and files are hosted on aws.

website properly working with www.mydomain.abc, but giving error with mydomain.abc

How can I redirect www.mydomain.abc to mydomain.abc

using these redirect rules in .htaccess

    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mydomain\.abc
    RewriteRule (.*) http://www.mydomain.abc/$1 [R=301,L]

did you add CNAME "@" to you dns settings ? – Kush Vyas Jun 14 '16 at 07:13 — Kush Vyas, Jun 14 '16 at 07:13
No. how would I do that? – amansoni211 Jun 14 '16 at 08:28 — amansoni211, Jun 14 '16 at 08:28

Rodrigo Murillo · Accepted Answer · 2016-06-14T22:15:32.133

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Make sure you have an alias to www from the root domain in your zone:

@ IN A 172.17.2.0
www IN CNAME @

To confirm this, ping both 'www.example.com' and 'example.com' and confirm they return the same address.

Update: I corrected the answer per Michael SQL Bot comment below

edited Jun 14 '16 at 22:15

answered Jun 14 '16 at 17:42

Rodrigo Murillo

That might appear to work, but it's wrong. A CNAME at the root violates the constraint that no other record can coexist at the same level as a CNAME, which means your NS and SOA records are invalid and the entire zone is not as it should be. This is why Route 53 created A-record alises -- they don't violate the constraint. – Michael - sqlbot Jun 14 '16 at 22:00

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