Newbie here, please let me know if I can add any more details or if I'm missing something entirely obvious.
I got my site up and running on an EC2 and I was able to view it with the public DNS.
I pointed my domain to the instance using this guide. I created an elastic IP for the instance, I created four NS records and two A-name record (www, non-www) using route53. I passed these NS records to my domain provider.
The domain appears to have propagated – when I go to the URL, I get redirected to a very old (two restarts ago) public instance DNS address instead of the new one with the elastic IP. I CAN SSH in to the instance using the new domain name but I can't access it from the browser. I checked my security groups, and HTTP/80
is set to allow all traffic.
I tried accessing the EIP directly (redirect), pinging the EIP (time out), accessing the Public DNS directly, pinging the Public DNS, I tried stopping and starting the instance and repeating all previous steps, and I checked that port 80 is open in the security group, but the domain still redirects me to an old public DNS.
Chrome gives me the error ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT
in the browser after I (301) redirected to the old URL.
Not sure where to go from here.
Best Answer
Looking into the issue, doing a nslookup on the domain gives me:
This is an IP belonging to AWS, so I'm assuming this is going to the right place. I would check to see if that matches the EIP, but based on what I'm seeing below, I'm going to assume this is correct.
Using curl against that IP, I get:
This shows to me that I'm indeed hitting a webserver running on
34.197.64.48
, but the webserver I'm reaching thinks I should be somewhere else, and is forwarding me tohttp://ec2-54-211-187-124.compute-1.amazonaws.com/
(This is not Route53 related).This means that somewhere on the webserver located on
34.197.64.48
there is some code that is triggering a redirect. This could be in your webserver (apache) config file, it could be a .htaccess file, or could be in the application itself.A lot of websites during the setup phase, make you input a 'primary' website address, which you get redirected to if you visit in any other way. In the past trying to solve this with Wordpress (if this was miss-configured on initial setup) you needed to modify a setting in the database before you can visit the website without being redirected.
I can confirm that we are getting to a working webserver and DNS is working, because running the following command:
curl -vH "Host: ec2-54-211-187-124.compute-1.amazonaws.com" 34.197.64.48
Which tricks the webserver into thinking I'm visiting the website returns me html of:RachelDoesFestivals - Guides, musings, media, and other nonsense from a festival obsessionist
If you are patient, you might be able to get into the website using:
http://www.racheldoesfestivals.com/wp-login.php
Then fixing the site address in settings->general