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Map a domain name to the web server

Map a domain name to the web server - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Map a domain name to the web server

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- [Instructor] In the previous video, we configured a Windows Server instance to act as a web server. But when we went to test that web server, we had to access it by way of an IP address, rather than a domain name, as is typically done in real-world environments. So what I want to do in this video is to associate a domain name with our web server. Now I've already gone through and registered a domain name with AWS just to save a little bit of time on the setup. So I want to go ahead and show you how to associate that domain name with the web server that we created. So let's go ahead and get started. Right now I'm logged in to the AWS Management Console, and the first thing that we have to do is to retrieve the web server's IP address. So to do that, I'm going to go into EC2, and then I'm going to click on Running Instances, and here we see our web server. So the web server is selected, and because it's selected…

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