I have
An AWS S3 bucket as a static site
A CloudFront distribution with ACM SSL certs
A Name.com domain name
A Heroku web app
I successfully have www.domain.com pointing to my abc123.cloudfront.net website. I also have api.domain.com successfully pointing towards my heroku app. I used ACM to generate a certificate for www.domain.com and Heroku handles its own SSL stuff as well.
That's pretty good, but just to be anal, I want domain.com to also point to my CF address. However it does not. This is how I set up my CF and DNS and wonder if anyone has any ideas. I've gone through about 20 SO questions and articles with no luck. Also Name.com URL forward does not seem to work.
DNS Settings
CloudFront Settings
Based on the comments.
Currently, only www.domain.com record is used to direct connections to CloudFront (CF) distro. To direct domain.com, a new record should be created which also points to the CF distro in Name.com DNS.
In addition to these, CNAME in CF as well as SSL certificate should also include domain.com.
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I've been trying to point my custom domain to the cloudfront distribution that's serving an s3 bucket.
I've been following this guide, but it doesn't work. I cannot figure out what's going wrong.
The cloudfront-s3 connection is working, becuase when I open the auto-assigned dns from cloudfront, it opens the site.
There's something wrong with the dns names. I have two certificates, one for root domain, one for *.. I use the second one, as I cannot work with root domain on google domains side, and as the guide suggested, I reroute to www. on Google Domains (doesn't seem to work though, if I try to open , it doesn't redirect me to www.).
When I try to open the address, it says:
This site can’t be reachedCheck if there is a typo in www.<root-domain>.
DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN
So in summary in Google Domains I have 2 CNAMEs, one for the certificate, one for the cloudfront distribuiton. The host name for the cloudfront distribution is wwww., and for the cert it's auto assigned by aws.
The certificates are confirmed that are issued, and assigned to the cloudfront distribution, also alternative domain names contain www..
I have a route 53 hosted zone created for www., and an alias created for cloudfront distribution.
Any clue what may have I done wrong?
Similarly to other stacks, I have hosted a website using AWS services:
Registered domain on Route 53 (example.net)
Content is hosted on an S3 bucket
Got an SSL certificate using AWS Certificate Manager
Created a CloudFront distribution, pointed it to S3 and connected it to my domain with Route 53.
All of this works except for an issue at what seems to be the final hurdle. When I enter my domain url into the search bar, example.net, the connection isn't secure by default. I've illustrated the problem here.
I'm relatively new to hosting and can't find a solution relating to this. My thoughts are that I'm missing some Cloudfront or Route 53 configuration, since another thing that doesn't work is connecting via www (I don't care about that issue as much). Any input is appreciated.
By default enabling HTTPS on a website doesn't disable HTTP. They are both available, on separate ports. That's why you have to type https:// in the browser's address bar to go directly to the HTTPS version of your website. You can get CloudFront to redirect all HTTP requests to HTTPS by following this guide.
I am using Loadbalancer with Amazon ACM. I have pointed A record to ELB in Route 53 ALand it works perfect with SSL and domain. But when I am pointing ELB to cloudfront getting SSL warning issue ..It would be great if someone help on this.
When you have your domain in CloudFront you need to ensure you attach a valid SSL from ACM (within us-east-1) for the domain you'll be loading. In addition ensure you have added your domain under the additional domains property.
Without this you will be loading the CloudFront default SSL which is invalid for your host domain name.
More information about setting this up is available on the Using Custom URLs for Files by Adding Alternate Domain Names (CNAMEs) page.
The hosted application worked until yesterday but suddenly not working today.
What I have done?
Using Cloudfront - To host my website from Amazon’s edge locations with a custom SSL certificate setup for my domain.
Amazon
Certificate Manager - To get HTTPS Certificate
Hosted my client application in S3. They wanted to access their site using a domain name. To achieve this I have provided two records as given below.
Type Host Value TTL
A # IP of the client domain 600
CNAME www CloudFront distribution URL 600
The thing is Endpoint which I got while configuring Cloudfront "d3ajo2v2g7lf33.cloudfront.net" is working but the domain name which I added as an alias to this endpoint is not working.
Probable findings from my side:
1) Used let's encrypt to get the SSL and it's about to expire within a week.
2) Added A record with the IP address of the domain. As am using Cloudfront am doubting that the domain does not have a static IP.
Also please let me know CloudFront distribution domain name IP will change every time or will it be static.
Kindly help me to resolve this.
CloudFront has CNAME record as well. So you have to register your domain name in the CloudFront distribution.
as for the SSL certificate for your custom domain, take a look at AWS ACM. It may be easier than using lets encrypt certificate (your call).
and yes. use the cloudfront's domain URL. it won't change unless you delete the distribution.
I have a website installed and working correctly on my EC2 instance. I want to setup CloudFront and use it as a front CDN service just like CloudFlare. (My old stack was like that; I was able to serve the whole website through CloudFlare just by adding proper DNS records)
Here is what I did:
I created a CloudFront web distribution.
I've setup an origin as secret.example.com (secret.example.com works normally on browser)
I've added www.example.com as CNAME to my CloudFront distribution.
I've set a CNAME record to point www subdomin to my CloudFront's distribution domain.
Here is what happens:
I can't connect to my website through CloudFront distribution's domain. Thus, www.example.com doesn't work.
What did I do wrong?
My apologies if you've already taken a look at the Amazon documentation regarding the subject, but I've once tested this solution and it worked fine for me:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/DownloadDistS3AndCustomOrigins.html#concept_CustomOrigin
Take a look and see if you have missed a step (for example with the headers)