I have an amazon S3 web server and a domain name registered in name.com (the name is sam-experiments.com). I am trying to have a static page hosted on the amazon web server to be displayed on http://www.sam-experiments.comOn the web server side, my bucket name is 'www.sam-experiments.com', and it links to here: http://www.sam-experiments.com.s3-website-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/On name.com, I added a new record with the followin characteristics:Record Type: CNAMERecord Host: www.sam-experiments.comRecord Answer: www.sam-experiments.com.s3.amazonaws.com. (as specified in the documentation here: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/VirtualHosting.html#VirtualHostingCustomURLs) TTL: 300However, nothing gets displayed on www.sam-experiments.com, and I am not able to find what I am doing wrong.I really would appreciate some tip.Thanks!Note: I already posted this question in stackoverflow, but didnt get any answer, so I thought posting here may be more appropriate.
Mapping an amazon server to a domain name registered with name.com
dns;amazon
I finally managed to map my website to my server. I will quikcly explain how, maybe it will be useful for someone who has the same problem. I just went to URL forwarding on name.com and put my amazon link: http://www.sam-experiments.com.s3-website-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/For some reason, I have control of http://sam-experiments.com but not http://sam-experiments.com, which confused me for a while...