Connecting Your Own Domain to an Imweb Landing Page via AWS Route 53
How to attach your own domain to an Imweb landing page
A walkthrough of connecting a root domain managed in AWS Route 53 to an Imweb site.
Imweb has quite a lot of documentation related to domains. The first result you usually find when searching is this article.
In my case, however, I was already managing my domain in AWS and needed to route traffic to various services — so using Imweb's own nameservers was not an option. It is surprisingly hard to find guidance for this setup, and since I eventually got it working, I wrote it up for my future self and anyone else who runs into the same situation.
If you are using AWS, refer directly to this document.
Below I walk through the steps in order, as a supplement to the official documentation.
(This assumes AWS nameservers are already connected in Route 53.)
1. Register the domain in Imweb
Go to Imweb Admin → Settings → Domain Purchase & Configuration.
Click the [Purchase/Connect Domain] button. Enter your domain and click Fetch Current Nameservers Now.
Imweb will detect the nameservers, then display a [Verify Ownership] button confirming that you own those nameservers.
Click Verify Ownership right away.
2. Add the verification CNAME record in AWS
After clicking the verify button and waiting a short while (roughly 2–5 minutes in practice), you will see a message like:
A verification record has been issued to confirm domain ownership. Please register the verification record with your nameserver within 30 minutes.
Now go to Route 53 and add the CNAME record. The record is provided in the form of a record name, type, and value.
Example:
Record name sadfasdfasdfasdf.app.stepping.co.kr. Record type CNAME Record value
asdfsadfasdfasdfasdf.asdfasdfasd.acm-validations.aws.
3. Point the A record to the Imweb landing page address
Once nameserver ownership is confirmed (about 5 minutes in practice), you will see a verification success message along with an address:
Verification complete
You can connect to the domain below using a CNAME from your nameserver. You may also switch to the assigned nameserver at any time.
**asdfasdfasdf.cloudfront.net**
4. Verify the domain is connected correctly
Confirm everything is working — and you are done!
Closing thoughts
P.S. If something is not working, make active use of Imweb's support chat feature.
P.S2. In the next post I will cover how to configure a subdomain in AWS Route 53 to point to Imweb.