Route 53 Record Set on Different Port

Question

I\'m a ruby dev and I just started to learn some Node.js.

I\'m running an instance on AWS to host my rails apps with passenger + nginx

Answer 1

In general, DNS does not care about ports.

You should be able to however, configure nginx to handle both virtual hosts with a reverse proxy to the node.js app. All requests would hit port 80, but how they get handled would depend on the domain.

Answer 2

This is possible through S3 redirection. Create a S3 bucket with the name

subdomain.domain.com

This bucket does not need to be public. Then, turn on Static Website Hosting in Properties and choose the Redirect response option and configure it with the following options

Target bucket or domain: my.ip:8000
Protocol: Leave this blank

Then go to Route53 and create a Record Set with the following configuration

• Name: subdomain.domain.com
• Type: A-IPv4 address
• Alias: Yes
• Alias Target: Choose the bucket you just created in S3. If it does not appear wait for it to appear.
• Routing Policy: Simple
• Evaluate Target Health: No

And that's it, you should be able to go to subdomain.domain.com and see the changes take effect after roughly 30 seconds. Best of luck!