I recently encountered a requirement of domain forwarding for our website. We have our domain purchased in AWS route 53 but our website is designed and developed in zoho sites. We did proper CNAME mapping of our domain https://www.example.com in AWS Route53 and our domain https://www.example.com is all working fine.
However we encountered an issue that, when user try to load https://example.com our zoho site was not loading, to make it work we suppose to add domain redirection from https://example.com to https://www.example.com
To achieve domain redirection in AWS route 53, we can use AWS S3 bucket, the steps are given below.
Steps for Domain Redirection (Forwarding) using AWS S3 bucket
Step 1: Create a bucket in s3 -> bucket is nothing but one folder in aws s3 service and bucket name should be same as your domain name now we have to forward example.com to www.example.com so create bucket as example.com
Step 2: After creating bucket , go to properties section of that bucket
Step 3: under properties section, scroll down to the bottom and enable Static website hosting with below configurations. Choose redirect request option and provide hostname for which requests has to redirect in our case all requests coming to example.com should redirect to www.example.com, so provide host name as www.example.com.
