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My domain is registered through GoDaddy, but I am hosting the contents using Amazon S3. I would like to create a subdomain (beta.example.com) and forward it to an IP address that is of a local physical server. However, the subdomain should show up in the browser and not the IP address.

I'm new to AWS so I am not fully aware of the server side lingo. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much.

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  • Add an A record for beta.example.com with the right IP. Nothing to do with AWS really.
    – ceejayoz
    Dec 2, 2014 at 16:34
  • @ceejayoz In GoDaddy? I can't access the DNS Zone File settings because it says "The zone file is unavailable because the domain's set nameservers do not belong to this registrar."
    – kaoscify
    Dec 2, 2014 at 16:36
  • @ceejayoz Is there a way to forward beta.example.com to another website? Can't seem to do it through A record because it says invalid characters.
    – kaoscify
    Dec 2, 2014 at 16:38
  • Invalid characters? What are you putting as the IP address? It should be ###.###.###.###.
    – ceejayoz
    Dec 2, 2014 at 16:39
  • @ceejayoz You are correct. But I was wondering if I want to forward the subdomain to another http:// address instead of an IP, what do I do?
    – kaoscify
    Dec 2, 2014 at 16:45

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First, determine what DNS servers are authoritative for your domain. You can do this by looking at the domain settings at GoDaddy.

  • Go to Godaddy.com and login
  • From the main menu, launch the domains control panel
  • Select the domain in question by clicking on it
  • On the resulting page, look at what's listed in the nameservers section

Once you know what nameservers are being used, you need to add a new A record to them for the subdomain you're trying to create. I'm assuming you're using Route53 for your DNS, so:

  • login to the AWS console
  • select Route 53
  • select the domain in question
  • create a new resource record
  • set record type to A
  • Enter the hostname you want to create in the name box (i.e. for foo.example.com you would enter foo)
  • In the value box, enter the IP address of the local server you want the subdomain to point to
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