Must use www for DNS entry using Amazon Route53

Question

I administered my domain e.g www.abcd.com in Amazon Route53. Everything works perfectly, except that when user type abcd.com without www, it won\'t get resolved. Any idea? Thank

Answer 1

Yes, this record is called your "zone apex" -- the bigcompany.com address, not www.bigcompany.com. You can use an IP value there, or you can specify an "alias" and point it to an ELB.

(Note: Route53 does NOT like @ values for either the record name or value.)

Answer 2

The following works for me:

For www.XYZ.com

• Create Record Set
• Name: *.XYZ.com
• Set Type A Type
• Alias: No
• Value: 127.0.0.123 (you website IP)

For XZY.com

• Create Record Set
• Name: XYZ.com (nothing to write here - leave it blank)
• Set Type A Type
• Alias: Yes
• Value: (wait a second for the Drop Down menu) - choose \052.XYZ.com

You can test with https://dnschecker.org if it works or not