You took me out of grave....thankyou .....I was scratching my head for 3 days for this issue.....Thankyou again.....a small post of your 3 years old…helped me in 2016

Hi Dear “mail189778” Good one dear really help us out, Thank you so much

I was looking everywhere on Google for about an hour to find a solution to the same issue on AWS and found this post. Did exactly as stated and it worked as a charm. Kudos +++++

I already have A record but it is not working. what else could prevent my site redirecting to my API? thank you for your reply.

this answer just sounded right even before I used it

Agreed - I just found and used this to resolve my issues in sept of 2018.