I recently transferred a domain from shoppify over to AWS. The transfer went well (took 5 days). but now that I want to start using it I can't seem to do anything with it. I suspect that there is an error in the configuration somewhere and would love it if someone could help me figure it out
What am I attempting?
I'm trying to forward traffic from my own sub domain ( https://docs.gisli.games ) over to my personal wiki page ( https://publish.obsidian.md/gisli-games-public )
Here is what I've tried
Creating a CNAME record for the sub domain
Step 1:
I created a hosted zone with my domain name ( gisli.games )
- Type: Public Hosted Zone (The default selection).
This creates 2x records
- NS record that points to 4x aws dns servers
- SOA record that points do aws dns server
I can now go and press "Test Record" at the top of the page and it gives me the message "No Error"
Step 2:
- I create a new record with the name (docs)
- I pick the record type CNAME (which is supposed to Route traffic to another domain...)
- I set the value to the URL I want : "https://publish.obsidian.md/gisli-games-public" (But I skip the HTTPS part in the beginning so its only "publish.obsidian.md/gisli-games-public"
- TTL(300) (default value)
- Routing Policy=Simple Routing (default value)
Result: When i go to the URL in a browser I get "DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN"
Trying to add Certificate through ACM
I think I read somewhere that I might need an HTTPS certificate for the domain, so I tried that too.
Step 1 I open up the certification manager in aws (ACM) and request a new certificate
My only option is to "Request a public certificate
Fully qualified domain name I type in *.gisli.games (which if I understand correctly creates a certificate for all the subdomains)
- DNS validation (Default)
- RSA 2048 (Default)
Step 2 I now select the certificate from the list and press "Create Records in Route 53" which I believe adds a record in order to validate the certificate.
When I press create record I get a new CNAME record that looks something like this _3927XXXXXXX.gisli.games which points to _f8281XXXXXXX.hcnplcfwms.acm-validations.aws
The problem
- https://docs.gisli.games/ always returns DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN
- The Certification Manager never gets passed Pending validation (I've waited 2 days)
I also tested to forward docs.gisli.games to a public simple html file (from S3) that is publically accessible but it still doesn't work
Can anyone spot what I'm doing wrong?