Using namecheap domain name for AWS Elastic Beanstalk environment?

Question

I have an application on AWS Elastic Beanstalk and I'm trying to route a domain I own from namecheap to the production environment. I followed the documentation from AWS here, but I feel kind of lost after going through it.

In Route 53, I have a hosted zone record name mydomain.io that is setting Value/Route traffic to my-aws-env.eba-fz3ggfhd.us-east-2.elasticbeanstalk.com. When I go to mydomain.io I still see the namecheap landing page. I feel like there's something I need to do on the namecheap end to allow the traffic to be routed to aws, but I didn't see anything else in the docs. What piece am I missing?

Answer 1

If you are seeing the Namecheap landing page, your name servers are incorrect. You mention following the instructions to route traffic from Route 53 to Elastic Beanstalk, but nowhere do you mention that your domain is actually pointing to Route 53. The Namecheap landing page confirms this as you would not be getting that from Route 53.

Check your NS records in your Route 53 Hosted Zone and configure those as your name servers in Namecheap. You might have to give it some time to update, but that should solve your problem.

Answer 2

if your domain is at Namechip then you not need to do anything with route53..

you simply need to point your domain to Your Public IP.

Add A record with your public IP in DNS management at Namechip

Answer 3

You don't need to redirect using Route 53. I was able to bypass it.

What's needed

1. ElasticBeanstalk App

URL: my-aws-env.eba-fz3ggfhd.us-east-2.elasticbeanstalk.com 2. Namespace domain

To map your Beanstalk App to your Namecheap domain, you'll need to IPV4 for your URL which can be obtained using https://www.whatismyip.com/dns-lookup/

Once you have your IP V4, do the following in your Namecheap account

What to Change

Go to Namecheap Advance settings

1. Go to Advanced DNS
2. Make changes to host records (Map to your Elastic Beanstalk IP V4)

Type	Host	Value	TTL
A Record	@	IP V4	5 min
A Record	www	IP V4	5 min

Give it 5-10 minutes. You should now be able to access your Elastic Beanstalk instance from your Namecheap domain.