Apache redirecting example.com to ec2 public DNS – Phpmyadmin

Setup

Route 53 Domain example.com has A record to id.cloudfront.net and AAAA record to random-id.cloudfront.net.

Cloudfront has origin domain as EC2 public DNS ec.xxxxxx.amazonaws.com and alternate domain as example.com. Also, it has a AWS certificate for SSL/TLS (for now it accepts both HTTP & HTTPS requests)

EC2 is an Ubuntu-20.04 AMI with apache2, php7.4 and phpmyadmin, all installed using apt-get.

Issue is whenever I put in example.com/* the site is automatically redirected to ec.xxxxxx.amazonaws.com/*.

Example:

• example.com/phpmyadmin gets redirected to ec.xxxxxx.amazonaws.com/phpmyadmin/.
• I tried to setup wordpress and example.com redirects to http://ec2-xxxxxx.amazonaws.com/wp-admin/setup-config.php`

These are the things I have tried.

• Added ServerName example.com in /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
• This command sudo ufw allow in "Apache Full"
• I do not have .htaccess in my /var/www/html folder.

Is it a Cloudfront or an Apache issue? This is my first rodeo with AWS and Apache and trying to learn how it works.

Solutions that seem out of scope:

• https://serverfault.com/questions/685654/apache-server-config-redirect-from-ip-to-domain-name-ec2
• Or anything that includes creating .htaccess at the root directory as I feel that would create an endless loop.

I can provide more information, if required.

Update:

• Removed A and AAAA record from route53. Doesn’t work.
• Also, added ServerName example.com to /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf
• Also, visiting random-id.cloudfront.net does the same redirection.
• However, visiting elastic-IP does not do any redirection.