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I have domain registered on porkbun suppose example.com I have landing page hosted on wix.com,from which I used their nameservers in porkbun's setting and www.example.com is working fine. Now I have parts of site hosted aws amplfiy, so I want to make home.example.com load the amplify content. How can I do that?

What I tried already:

  1. When I try to add subdomain in amplify setting it gives me 2 values to set like following in porkbun's dns setting.

    _3abbe162eeb3ca7211b8c5a659cab5a3 CNAME _2de7d1ffc9c8a9aa1573634f0bfe21d8.bsgbmzkfwj.acm-validations.aws.

    _3abbe162eeb3ca7211b8c5a659cab5a3 CNAME _2de7d1ffc9c8a9aa1573634f0bfe21d8.bsgbmzkfwj.acm-validations.aws.

    Which did not work,as I was not able to reach home.example.com

  2. Saw this question,which I think is exactly what I want Can I use different nameservers for different subdomains?

    But I am not sure how to get A record for home.example.com from amplify hosting. And its solution suggets adding nameserver in dns manager of TLD (porkbun here I suppose),but I dont have amplfify nameserver.

What am I doing wrong?

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  • The AWS Amplify documentation only talks about running the service on the base domain name. It doesn't indicate that it is possible to run it on a subdomain.
    – Stephen Ostermiller ♦
    Oct 29, 2020 at 9:58
  • Their documentation says that you should use AWS Route 53 as your "Amplify nameserver". I'm not sure if that would make it possible to run Amplify on a subdomain though.
    – Stephen Ostermiller ♦
    Oct 29, 2020 at 10:01
  • In addition to the validation DNS records that you implemented you should have a cloudfront subdomain where you can point a CNAME record for @ and the www. subdomain. Have you tried pointing your home subdomain to that?
    – Stephen Ostermiller ♦
    Oct 29, 2020 at 10:04
  • @StephenOstermiller you can't have both a cname for "@" and for a subdomain (at least not in the same zone"
    – davidgo
    Oct 29, 2020 at 18:03
  • Their documentation actually shows an a name not a c name for the domain apex
    – Stephen Ostermiller ♦
    Oct 29, 2020 at 19:30

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You can use different nameservers for different subdomains. See this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47807814/different-name-servers-for-different-subdomains

To point a subdomain to another server, here are a couple of methods.

In your hosting panel (e.g. cpanel) create the subdomain home.example.com. Then in DNS find the A Record for that and change the IP address to the IP address of the amplify server.

Alternatively, in DNS, create an A Record for the subdomain and set the IP address. Both methods have the same outcome.

You then must have home.example.com set up on the target server.

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  • For adding A record in hosting panel(here I suppose wix where root domain is hosted),I dont have ip address of amplify,but only values mentioned in question.
    – mayur newase
    Oct 29, 2020 at 5:40
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    You absolutely can use different name servers for subdomains - and the whole DNS structure is predicated on this. That's what NS records do.
    – davidgo
    Oct 29, 2020 at 18:00
  • Thanks @davidgo, I learned something and have updated my answer
    – Steve
    Oct 29, 2020 at 21:31

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