Changing browser url in Nginx Unicorn Rails app on EC2

Question

Now i have a rails app configured succesfully on Amacon EC2.I successfully configured both nginx and unicorn and now i can see this url as myipaddress/loginbut want to access using domain name. This is the problem as i have already changed hosts file and added the below after ssh in ec2 instance:-

127.0.0.1 www.mysite.com
#Virtual Hosts
myipaddress www.mysite.com
myipaddress mysite.com

also my /home/ubuntu/shareit/config/nginx.conf file looks like this:-

upstream unicorn {
  server unix:/home/ubuntu/shareit/tmp/sockets/unicorn.shareit.sock fail_timeout=0;
}

server {
  listen 80;
  #listen [::]:80 ipv6only=on default_server;
  server_name mysite.com www.mysite.com;
  root /home/ubuntu/shareit/public;

  access_log /home/ubuntu/shareit/log/access.log;
  error_log  /home/ubuntu/shareit/log/error.log;



  location ^~ /assets/ {
    gzip_static on;
    expires max;
    add_header Cache-Control public;
  }

  try_files $uri/index.html $uri @unicorn;
  location @unicorn {
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
    proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
    proxy_redirect off;
    proxy_pass http://unicorn;
  }

  error_page 500 502 503 504 /500.html;
  client_max_body_size 4G;
  keepalive_timeout 10;
}

but still whenever i try to hit the url www.mysite.com instead of myipaddress/login(which is working) i get error as This web page is not available.

so am i missing something?i dont want to hit my app using ipaddress.i even tried using app name in routes.rb,but its still not working. i even flushed UBUNTU dns using sudo /etc/init.d/nscd restart and restarted nginx and unicorn,but it doesnt works?

Any help would be appreciated?

Answer 1

Whats is the output of

ping myipaddress www.mysite.com

If it's able to resolve correctly, setup a Route53, all the configuration seems to ok, you just need a "A" record