AWS S3 Bucket Redirection redirects to a malformed URL

Question

I have followed the instructions that Amazon has provided for website hosting using s3 buckets here.

I have created two S3 buckets, one named MyWebsite.com and a second one named www.MyWebsite.com. In S3, I have configured the latter of the two buckets to redirect to the former, as shown in the example.

I am using Route53 to set Alias record sets for the www and non-www domain. My Record Sets are as follows:

Name: MyWebsite.com, Alias Target: s3-website-us-west-1.amazonaws.com.

Name: www .MyWebsite.com, Alias Target: s3-website-us-west-1.amazonaws.com.

Accessing the non-www domain, MyWebsite.com works fine, but when I try accessing www.MyWebsite.com, I am redirected to the invalid url:

http://http//MyWebsite.com.s3-website-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/

Where is the extra "http//" (without a colon) coming from and how can I prevent it?

Edit: Actual website name is thinkingdots.com

Answer 1

I'm not sure you actually need two s3 buckets here. I'm assuming you have a single deployment of the website on MyWebsite.com.s3-website-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/?

AWS has a constraint where the A record on Route53 for MyWebsite.com has to match the naming convention for the s3 bucket - which in this case is the "naked domain name" (i.e. no subdomain).

For www.MyWebsite.com, I believe you need to create a CNAME record on Route53 associating it with MyWebsite.com