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Reputation: 21

virtual host with aws private IP address

Can anyone explain exactly how AWS internal/private IPs work? (in regards to binding them with elastic IPs).

For instance, say I have an AWS Virtual Private Server that is using SSL..

elastic IP 54.1.1.1 (bound to internal IP 10.1.1.1)

If I hit https://54.1.1.1 it works perfectly with this configuration..

<VirtualHost 10.1.1.1:443>
       DocumentRoot /var/www/html/mysite
       ServerName mysite.com    
       ServerAlias mysite.com 
</VirtualHost>

However, I have another server not hosted with AWS. When I try to do this same thing, it does not see the above configuration.

Is there something AWS does that allows apache to know that elastic IP 54.1.1.1 is equivalent to 10.1.1.1?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1401

Answers (1)

Panama Jack
Panama Jack

Reputation: 24448

You might find this documentation of Elastic IP's helpful.

We assign each instance in a default VPC two IP addresses at launch: a private IP address and a public IP address that is mapped to the private IP address through network address translation (NAT). The public IP address is allocated from the EC2-VPC public IP address pool, and is associated with your instance, not with your AWS account. You cannot reuse a public IP address after it's been disassociated from your instance.

Upvotes: 1

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