: Amazon EC2 Ubuntu instance setting up domain name I had a domain transferred to amazon using their Rout 53. at the begining when i went to the IP address 54.69.253.182, or ec2-54-69-253-182.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com

@Heady270

Your host name also needs to be added to /etc/hosts in 127.0.0.1 section. If you haven't rebooted since editing /etc/hostname you also need to set the hostname using the hostname command. This normally happens at bootup from /etc/hostname.

Here is a script that I use to make sure the host name is set correctly on my Ubuntu ec2 instance:

#!/bin/sh
set -e

etchostname=`cat /etc/hostname`
if [ `echo "$etchostname" | grep -c '.'` -eq 0 ]
then
echo "ERROR: /etc/hostname does not contain a fully qualified domain name."
echo "edit /etc/hostname and try again"
exit 1
fi

if [ `grep 127.0.0.1 /etc/hosts | grep -c "$etchostname"` -eq 0 ]
then
echo "Adding hostname to 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts"
sudo sed -i -r "s/^127.0.0.1([ t].*)/127.0.0.1 $etchostname 1/g" /etc/hosts
fi

hostname=`hostname -f` || true
if [ "$hostname" != "$etchostname" ]
then
echo "Setting hostname to $etchostname"
sudo hostname "$etchostname"
fi




To solve the Apache message you will also have to create a configuration file for Apache using these commands source:

echo "ServerName localhost" | sudo tee /etc/apache2/conf-available/servername.conf
sudo a2enconf servername
sudo service apache2 reload




You also need to set up DNS hosting for your website. To do so using route 53 you would log into the AWS admin console and navigate to route 53. You would then "Create hosted zone". In that hosted zone create records for the base domain (bracketfanatic.com.) and bracketfanatic.com. They could either be A records that point to your elastic IP address (54.69.253.182), or CNAME records that point to ec2-54-69-253-182.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com.

You will then need to copy the NS records from that hosted zone into your domain name registrar. If you are using GoDaddy, you would first "launch" your domain. Then you would choose "manage nameservers" and paste in the four values that Route 53 supplied for you.

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