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We recently moved over our WordPress installation to to AWS Lightsail, we've successfully moved our website and configured the DNS to point to the domain correctly.

I cannot figure out how to forward a subdomain to an external URL.

I've tried creating an s3 bucket, then back in to the Lightsail DNS to create an A record to point to this bucket -- but the created bucket does not show up.

If I try to create a CNAME record with the subdomain social.mywebsite.com and map it to an external url -- I get the error must be a valid domain name

I would try modifying the htaccess file to redirect the subdomain via Apache (.htaccess Redirect Subdomain to External URL) but I cannot figure out how to connect to my Lightsail server via FTP.

Any ideas? Thank you

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  • What are exactly trying to do open s3 bucket from a subdomain or what please be specific ? – varnit Dec 27 '18 at 03:00
  • We're trying to forward a subdomain (through Lightsail DNS) to an external URL -- the s3 bucket method was just something we found online to redirect a Lightsail subdomain to an external URL. – user3089222 Dec 27 '18 at 03:58
  • i could not find subdomain settings on lightsail dns console you can however ssh into your lightsail machine and use htaaccess for same purpose – varnit Dec 27 '18 at 11:58

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