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Setting up Incapsula on a Sub-Domain in Route 53

We had an instance where we wanted to host an application over Incapsula, that was on a sub-domain (ie: portal.domain.com).

The DNS hosting was done completely in Amazon Route53. The procedure to get it setup was a bit tricky, since Incapsula only provides you a CNAME record if you are just hosting a sub-domain. Since hosted sub-domain record sets cannot contain root CNAMEs (portal.domain.com), there is a bit of a dns shuffle that needs to occur to getting this to work.

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