Cloudfront GoDaddy DNS - SSL Certificate Issues

Question

I have a CloudFront distribution setup and working correctly. I also have an SSL certificate issued using ACM.

My GoDaddy DNS has a CNAME entry for www which points to the cloudfront distribution

The following URLS work as expected and display the CloudFront distribution...

https://www.example.com
http://www.example.com
http://example.com

But this one does not..

https://example.com

It gives me a non-secure page error, looking further into it I can see that is it because the domain is actually the GoDaddy URL shortener shortener.secureserver.net which the SSL certificate does not recognise.

Anyone any idea how I can resolve? Can I create another CNAME entry for @?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 26 '18 at 08:43

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No, you can’t CNAME your root domain name, and for that reason you should avoid using or promoting it. However, if you move your DNS to Cloudflare, they have a workaround for this.

answered Jul 26 '18 at 08:43

Mike Scott

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Is moving the DNS to Route53 an option? I am keen to keep as many things under one roof as possible – fightstarr20 Jul 26 '18 at 08:46
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Yes, you should be able to use a Route53 alias record. See here for instructions: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/routing-to-cloudfront-distribution.html – Mike Scott Jul 26 '18 at 08:51
Thanks, reading up on that now. Looks like a good solution – fightstarr20 Jul 26 '18 at 08:54

Cloudfront GoDaddy DNS - SSL Certificate Issues

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