Amazon web services AWS: how to host java app, assign custom domain, custom domain name doesn't work properly

Question

I have a site hosted here: http://testapp-test.us-west-2.elasticbeanstalk.com/someservlet.do

The site contains an index.jsp and a someservlet.

In https://my.freenom.com cabinet I tried: to set nameservers and to set url forwarding to http://testapp-test.us-west-2.elasticbeanstalk.com. The former doesn't work: I set the nameservers as the screen shows and when trying to access codingrecords.tk it is just blank. URL forwarding however works, and it does display the main page, but when I try to access http://codingrecords.tk/someservlet.do it still displays the index.jsp message.

How do I fix it? By specifying nameservers, rather than url forwarding? But then it doesn't work too..

Answer 1

OK, so after lots of googling and trying out, I managed to make it work. I hope it will help future readers.

What I have done to deploy my java application in the custom domain in the Internet:

1. Get free domain in freenom.com

2. Create a key pair (don't know if it's necessary, just in case):
   2.1. Go to Amazon Web Services - Services - EC2 - Key Pairs - Create Key Pair

   

   

   

   2.2 Pick a some key_name for the key, save a file on your computer

3. Create an application and environment on AWS

   3.1 Go to Amazon Web Services - Services - Elastic Beanstalk - Create New Application

   

   

   3.2 Proceed to create new application, click next unless forced to fill something out; pick tomcat as a web server along the way; when come to a form where there's a Key label - pick an existing key with a name you assigned to it previously.

Pick a name - Next - Create Web Server - Select platform Tomcat - Next - Upload you .war file - Next - if you don't need a DB, click Next - set EC2 key pair to the key_name - Next - don't do anything with Environment Tags - Next - Next - Launch

3.3 Your application is lanched; you can see it at Elastic Beanstalk dashboard and you can see the running environment at Services - EC2 - Instances:

4. Create IP address:

   4.0 Go to Services - EC2 - Instances. Check the IPv4 Public IP column. If there's already an address there, go to point 5. If it's empty go to 4.1.

   4.1 Go to Services - EC2 - Elastic IPs:

   4.2 Click Allocate New Address:

   

   4.3 Pick it and click Actions - Associate Address - Select your app's instance - Associate:

   

5. Set up Route 53:

   5.1 Go to Services - Route 53:

   5.2 Go to Hosted Zones:

   

   5.3 Click Create Hosted Zone:

   

   5.4 Add your site's name to the form on the right (for instance, butterflies.com, somesite.edu, whatever):

   

There appears a table with two record sets for your hosted zones: NS and SOA record sets.

5.5 Click on NS record set and copy paste nameservers from Value to your registrat's settings:

5.6 Go to Services - Elastic Beanstalk, find your application - copy URL value:

Go back to Route 53, Click Create Record Set. Choose Type: A, Alias: yes, in the Alias target paste the URL. Click Create:

5.7 Click Create Record Set. Set name: www. Set type: CNAME. Set value to your_site_name.your_domain (for instance, butterflies.com), click Create:

6. It's done! Chances are, your_site_name is working.