Static Site Deployment in AWS S3 with CloudFront

Question

I am trying to set up a static website that has been configured to use index.html default documents. I have the following bucket policy set up in S3:

{
  "Version": "2008-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Sid": "Allow Public Access to All Objects",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Principal": {
        "AWS": "*"
      },
      "Action": "s3:GetObject",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::www.risendeadmc.com/*",
      "Condition": {}
    }
  ]
}

The 2nd step is I created a CloundFront distribution to distribute this S3 content.

Issue 1: Sub folders are still accessible by CDN domain name but index.html no longer load as default for document and hitting folder causing a content download.

I then set up a A record Alias to the CDN distribution in Route53 and now nothing resolves with a 403 Forbidden error no matter what I use.

Any configuration advise to resolve would be greatly appreciated.

What I am looking for is the ability to use my domain set up in Route53 to point to the CloudFront Distribution to provide access (with index.html default) content access.

I would like to keep root and sub folder default access points to non file suffixed endpoint reference:

http://mydomain.com/root

or

http://mydomain.com/root/sub/subroot

rather than address index.html

Answer 1

You will want to make sure that you are setting your default root object in Amazon S3 and that your origin is the S3 Website endpoint.

Example origin: www.example.com.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/website-hosting-custom-domain-walkthrough.html