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mranonymous101
mranonymous101

Reputation: 143

How can I redirect from one subdomain to another on route 53?

I can't understand why this won't work. I own a domain example.com and 2 subdomains, app.example.com and donate.example.com. I want donate.example.com to redirect to app.example.com/donate.

I have set up a CNAME record in route 53 with name donate.example.com and value app.example.com/donate. The result is that I get "donate.example.com"s IP address cannot be found.

What is the correct way to accomplish this within route 53?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 235

Answers (1)

John Rotenstein
John Rotenstein

Reputation: 269284

Domain Names consist of the part before the slash.

A domain name resolves to an IP address. Anything after the slash is interpreted by the app listening on that IP address.

You can certainly define donate.example.com as pointing to app.example.com by using a CNAME entry, but you cannot point to something with a slash, since that isn't part of the domain.

You would need a web server or proxy listening on app.example.com that can redirect or forward the request.

Upvotes: 3

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