Amazon CloudFront (AWS) Configuration Guide

Introduction

To forward requests to JENTIS via CloudFront we need to add new custom origin in the CloudFront distribution and define a behavior for the origin.

Prerequesits

• Admin access to the AWS Management Console.
  

Step 1: Create Origin

1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the CloudFront console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/v4/home.

2. Navigate to Distributions

3. Open the distribution for your website

4. Navigate to Origins

5. Click Create origin

6. Specify the following:

   1. Origin domain: hash of the JENTIS container as subdomain + . + website domain, e.g. hash.yourwebsitedomain.com

   2. Protocol: HTTPS

   3. Port: 443

   4. MinimumSSL protocol: TLSv1.2

   5. Name: hash.yourwebsitedomain.com (or any other)

   6. Enable Origin Shield: No

7. Press Create Origin

Step 2: Define Behavior

1. In your website distribution go to Behaviors;

2. Click Create behavior

3. Specify the following:

   1. Path pattern: '/' + hash of the tracking container, e.g /hash

   2. Origin and origin groups: hash.yourwebsitedomain.com (origin from the previous step)

   3. Compress objects automatically: No

   4. Viewer protocol policy: HTTPS Only

   5. Allowed HTTP methods: GET, HEAD, OPTIONS, PUT, POST, PATCH, DELETE

   6. Cache HTTP methods: disabled

   7. Allow gRPC requests over HTTP/2: disabled

   8. Restrict viewer access: No

   9. Cache key and origin requests → Cache policy: CachingDisabled

   10. Cache key and origin requests → Origin request policy: None

   11. Cache key and origin requests → Response headers policy: None

4. Press Create Behavior
   

Conclusion

You have now created your new custom behaviour, and your request will from now on be forwarded.

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