title: AWS Route53 pointing to a elastic beanstalk webapp
body: <p>I've got a web applicaiton set up on elastic beanstalk. I've a domain on route53, and I've followed the guides more or less here:
  <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/HBJEc.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/customdomains.html</a></p>
  
  <p>The URL to the webapp works fine, but the DNS is not pointing me to it.
  To be honest, I'm not sure where to even begin looking at how to fix this. I've tried to use the 'Check response from Route 53' feature and I can't see anything out of the ordinary. I've attached a lot of pics.</p>
  
  <p>Any idea?</p>
  
  <p>Please see here for the images, I couldn't upload them here. I kepy getting format errors.</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://imgur.com/a/NwCbb" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://imgur.com/a/NwCbb</a></p>
  
  <p>******update*******</p>
  
  <p>Updated, new hosted zone configuration:
  <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/HBJEc.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/HBJEc.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>******update*******</p>
  
  <p>The name is still not resolving. I've added an A type record set and selected the elastic beanstlak as the alais. </p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/tIfNE.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/tIfNE.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>******Answer*******</p>
  
  <p>Credit to imperalix for this.</p>
  
  <p>Amazon registered the wrong name servers for my site.
  I needed to go to </p>
  
  <p><a href="https://www.whois.net/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.whois.net/</a></p>
  
  <p>and search for my www.thetellyourstory.com</p>
  
  <p>I got the values for my name server there:
  Name Server: NS-1487.AWSDNS-57.ORG
  Name Server: NS-187.AWSDNS-23.COM
  Name Server: NS-1891.AWSDNS-44.CO.UK
  Name Server: NS-802.AWSDNS-36.NET</p>
  
  <p>Then, go into route 53 and update the name server values:
  <a href="http://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/domain-name-servers-glue-records.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/domain-name-servers-glue-records.html</a></p>
  
  <p>It's important to update the name server values only as above. You can edit them directly from <em><a href="http://imgur.com/a/a41z2" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://imgur.com/a/a41z2</a></em> here but it does not update the values.</p>