Redirect HTTP/HTTPS Traffic from WWW to the Domain Root

Easily redirect HTTP and HTTPS traffic at WWW.[domain.tld] to the root of the domain [domain.tld].

Using CloudFront, S3 and Route53

This repository provides an AWS CloudFormation Template to construct a CloudFront SSL/HTTPS endpoint, an S3 bucket for redirection and correct Route53 DNS entries.

Automated Usage

You can download the automated script for this repo and run it yourself for your deployment:

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cbschuld/aws-cf-redirect-www-to-root/main/create-redirect-www-to-root.sh > /tmp/create-redirect-www-to-root.sh && bash /tmp/create-redirect-www-to-root.sh && rm /tmp/create-redirect-www-to-root.sh

Prerequisites for the Manual Usage

You will need the following, which are all automated but good to understand what assets you need to stand up in the stack.

Determine the Hosted Zone ID

Determine the zone ID using the AWS CLI. In this example I'll use my named profile example and look for example.com

Using the AWS CLI

Please note you'll need jq for this operation to work. If you are on MacOS, for example, you can add it with brew: brew install jq

#!/bin/zsh

# Prompt for user input
echo "Enter AWS CLI Profile Name:"
read profile

echo "Enter Domain:"
read domain

# Fetch HostedZoneID
aws route53 list-hosted-zones-by-name --profile=$profile |
jq --arg name $domain \
-r '.HostedZones | .[] | select(.Name=="\($name)") | .Id'

Example output:

/hostedzone/Z1UVA2VESUQ1UN

Manual Usage of the Stack Template

aws cloudformation create-stack --stack-name www-redirect --template-body file://redirect-www-to-root.yml \
--parameters \
ParameterKey=DomainName,ParameterValue=example.com \
ParameterKey=HostedZoneID,ParameterValue=Z1UVA2VESUQ1UN \
--region=us-east-1 \
--profile=example