Amazon Hosting Issues

Where my Jekyll site files are hosted Because Jekyll outputs static html you can host Jekyll just about anywhere. I use Amazon S3 to host my Jekyll site files. If the site is mine it will live in one of my S3 buckets. If the site belongs to a … [Read more...] about My base Jekyll hosting configuration

To set up SSL with S3 hosted Jekyll websites you must use CloudFront If you want to use SSL on your beautiful Jekyll website you’ll need to use Amazon CloudFront to serve your site. That’s just the way it is. CloudFront, Amazon S3 and … [Read more...] about Setting up SSL with Amazon S3 hosted Jekyll

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