title: How do I link my Route53 domain name to an application running on an EC2 instance on a specific port?
body: <p>I've a django application deployed on an ec2 instance (with public IP a.b.c.d) on port 8080 and have a domain name 'xyz.com' purchased via Route53. How do I link the domain name to my application server? </p>
  
  <p>I've gone through a lot of docs, but it does not seem to be working. I see that while adding a record set, I need to enter the public IP of my ec2 instance in the value field, but how do I get it to route traffic to port 8080 on the box? If I enter a value like a.b.c.d:8080, it errors out saying "The Value field contains invalid characters or is in an invalid format."</p>
  
  <p>Steps I've done so far:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Took an ec2 instance, deployed my web app on port 8080. Everything's
  working fine and I can access my app using the public IP (will go
  for an elastic IP later) </li>
  <li>Registered domain name with Route53.</li>
  <li>Created a Hosted Zone with the name of a subdomain. </li>
  <li>Created a Record Set with the following info: 
  Name:  
  Type: A - IPv4 address 
  Alias: No 
  TTL(Seconds): 300 
  Value: &lt;<strong>THIS IS THE MISSING PIECE I GUESS</strong>>
  Routing Policy: Simple</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>Can someone point me to any documentation for this? It seems to be a straightforward thing, but somehow I cannot find how to link the pieces.</p>