Set $default route in API gateway for REST APIs

Question

I have some REST APIs my backend server listens for (I used node express). I want to use my friendly url api.mywebsite.com to forward all routes to horribleuglybackendname.aws.com , eg api.mywebsite.com/some/route -> horribleuglybackendname.aws.com/some/route

I want to use API gateway to simply forward any routes to my backend. If I create a HTTP API (not REST) this seems easy to do but if I create a REST API I cannot see how to configure it. Perhaps you can't? If you can't why not? What is the alternative?

Thanks

Answer 1

So it seems $default is for HTTP APIs only. The UI is different between HTTP and REST API configuration. If you want to do a catch-all route for REST APIs you need to use {proxy+}.

This is good (ctrl-f for catch-all and you should be set) https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/api-gateway-update-new-features-simplify-api-development/