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You need to get an external SSL certificate with Cloudfront if you want to have your own domain When you first set up the CloudFront distribution to serve the Jekyll files in your Amazon S3 bucket you need to use the default CloudFront SSL … [Read more...] about Displaying your domain name in CloudFront URLs

US East (N. Virginia) region is region us-east-1 If you’ve been following nice tidy instructions for setting up SSL with your Amazon S3 bucket then you might have come unstuck when looking for the us-east-1 region. us-east-1 region and why it’s … [Read more...] about Where is Amazon AWS region us-east-1

Go to your CloudFront distribution and invalidate the cache One of the problems that had be really scratching my head when I first starting deploying my Jekyll sites to Amazon S3 was that the buggers didn’t seem to update. I would get the updates … [Read more...] about Jekyll site hosted on CloudFront & S3 not updating

When setting up the behaviour variable in Amazon CloudFront distribution settings make sure you select to redirect http to https Not much else to say here. If you set your Cloudfront distribution to https only (as some tutorials claim) then you’re … [Read more...] about How to redirect http to https on CloudFront

How to set up your Amazon S3 / CloudFront hosted Jekyll website to resolve with www and without www WWW I don’t like you I’ve never liked prefacing websites with www. This probably goes back twenty years to when I first started building servers … [Read more...] about Set up Jekyll on S3 / CloudFront without www

Cloudfront can set the correct Amazon S3 bucket policy for Jekyll hosting Knowing that CloudFront can be used to set the permissions for the S3 bucket that hosts your Jekyll site would have saved me a lot of time. I spent a lot of time trying … [Read more...] about Using CloudFront to set Amazon S3 permissions policy