I have an AWS EC2 Elastic Beanstalk (Elastic Load Balancer) instance. I also have a registered domain name with 1&1 Domains.
My AWS load balanacer instance has a domain name:
https://thewhozoo.us-west-2.elasticbeanstalk.com/
Question
How do I get my 1&1 domain:
to point to the AWS load balancer?
I have tried the A/AAAA Records
, setting the IPv4 Address
to my public IP, but this doesn't work because it points directly to the instance, and not the load balancer (https://thewhozoo.us-west-2.elasticbeanstalk.com/
);
Route 53
on AWS? (If I do so, I see I can transfer my domain from 1&1 to AWS, but the problem is AWS is that it is much more expensive, i.e. $50/month plus other costs aws.amazon.com/route53/pricing)Route 53
, and rather 'use a CNAME record to route queries to your load balancer', does that just redirect the domain name (www.thewhozoo.com
) to the ELB (https://thewhozoo.us-west-2.elasticbeanstalk.com/
)? Ie, does it just change the url tohttps://thewhozoo.us-west-2.elasticbeanstalk.com/
? If this is the case, it's not suitable, because the domain name in the browser url needs to bewww.thewhozoo.com
for SEO and thehttps
certificate lets secure traffic on that name.