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.
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My client has a domain example.com hosted somewhere.
We need to create a subdomain cloudfront.example.com in my AWS cloud in order to make my Cloudfront Distribution accessible on that subdomain.
CF requires an SSL certificate to work with a custom domain.
I was only able to find a solution which leads to 4th level subdomains via creating an AWS Hosted Zone (3rd level domain) in my AWS account where I can then create another subdomain (4th level).
Is it possible to register a single record in my client's DNS table to point to my CF Distro?
Yes, you can use the client's DNS. What you need to do:
Use ACM to create an SSL certificate for cloudfront.example.com. You will see a necessary CNAME to confirm the SSL certificate
Add CNAME to your client's DNS that will validate the certificate
In CloudFront, define alternate domain name (CNAME) as cloudfront.example.com
In the client's DNS add a CNAME for cloudfront.example.com to point to your CloudFront distribution domain name (it's going to be some-hash.cloudfront.net)
In Aws Certificate Manager, I have created SSL certificate and add it to dns.
*.test.example.com
In Cloudfront, I have created a distribution With below CNAME
dev.test.example.com
Then, I can successfully access dev.test.example.com.
After that, I try to create Another distribution with CNAME uat.test.example.com using the same SSL certificate
But error occurs and cannot create the distribution.
com.amazonaws.services.cloudfront.model.CNAMEAlreadyExistsException: One or more aliases specified for the distribution includes an incorrectly configured DNS record that points to another CloudFront distribution. You must update the DNS record to correct the problem
Dont use wildcards (*) in your DNS for cloudfront, just for the certificate. You should create a CNAME for each domain name and point it to its appropriate cloudfront url:
dev.test.example.com CNAME 0123456789.cloudfront.net
uat.test.example.com CNAME 9876543210.cloudfront.net
Having *.test.example.com is perfectly valid DNS, but means all traffic matching *.test.example.com (which would include your dev, uat, and any other future subdomains) will be sent to your dev cloudfront distribution.
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 seen many posts on this topic, but I have not been able to resolve the issue, so I am posting my setup in case anyone knows what needs to be changed?
I have a domain purchased through Namecheap. I have set custom DNS and added 4 name servers generated by the hosted zone in AWS Route 53. DNS lookup through whois.net shows the correct values.
In Route 53, I have added an A record to the Alias Target xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.cloudfront.net. So the traffic hits Route 53 and goes to CloudFront.
In CloudFront, I have one distribution. As Alternate Domain Names (CNAMEs), I have the following values:
*.domain.com
www.domain.com
domain.com
Under origins, I have one record with the following Origin Domain Name:
domain.com.s3-website.az-name-1.amazonaws.com
I am hosting website in an S3 bucket. All HTTP requests are set to redirect to HTTPS.
Lastly, I have created and verified a single certificate for the following domain names: domain.com, www.domain.com, *.domain.com
I have read some answers that I should just wait and the custom SSL certificate option will become enabled. It's been more than day now, however, and there is no sign of that happening.
My website works, but the misconfigured certificate (using the default *.cloudfront.net) throws a warning popup in Safari, and worse, a warning page in Chrome which most people are not going to bypass.
To use an ACM Certificate with Amazon CloudFront, you must request or import the certificate in the US East (N. Virginia) region. ACM Certificates in this region that are associated with a CloudFront distribution are distributed to all the geographic locations configured for that distribution.
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/acm/latest/userguide/acm-regions.html
CloudFront is not a regional service like most of the others. It's a global service with a single home region -- us-east-1. It can't see ACM certificates in any other region (you'd create certificates in other regions if you wanted to use them with Elastic Beanstalk or Elastic/Application Load Balancers).
From the description of what you observe, you didn't create the ACM certificate in us-east-1.
Create a new cert in us-east-1, and the option to use it should become available almost immediately in CloudFront.
I am trying to load all my static resources for my website using the amazon cloudfront distribution. I have configured everything and I am able to load my files using the cloudfront domain URL.
I have also added a SSL certificate with ACM for my site domains *.mydomain.com and verified and added the custom SSL configuration to the distribution.
I have also added the Alternate Domain Names (CNAMEs) : test.mydomain.com to the distribution.
What I am trying to do is load my static files using the url https://test.mydomain.com/animate.css which I am currently not able to. But I am getting the same file using the cloudfront URL https://myclouddomain.cloudfront.net/animate.css
I have also tried this after renaming my bucket to test.mydomain.com and is still not working.
Am I missing something here or is there any other configurations I need to do to load these files using my domain.
In your DNS registrar, make sure you have created a CNAME test.mydomain.com and pointed it to myclouddomain.cloudfront.net.
Elaborate on "it is not working", what's the error code/message?
DNS issue - point test.mydomain.com to myclouddomain.cloudfront.net in your domain registrar,
400 Bad Request - make sure the CNAME is properly configured in CloudFront
502 Bad Gateway - make sure the origin has an SSL certificate valid for: CloudFront CNAME if you are forwarding the Host Header,CloudFront Origin domain name if you are not forwarding the Host Header