Amazon CloudFront CNAME

Question

I am setting up Amazon CloudFront to distribute the contents of an S3 bucket and it works fine when I use the xxxxxxx.cloudfront.net Amazon gives me.

However, I want to use static.mydomain.com to access my files. I have followed Amazon's instructions and have added a CNAME record from static.mydomain.com to xxxxxx.cloudfront.net and I have also specified that CNAME (static.mydomain.com) in my CloudFront distribution properties.

Still, I can't access my files from static.mydomain.com.

I am with MediaTemple and static.mydomain.com only serves me the default MediaTemple server page. When I request static.mydomain.com/myfile.css it gives me 'Sorry, invalid request'.

Any idea?

I needed to restart my CloudFront distributions and now it works... — Jonathan Roy, Mar 13 '12 at 03:53
When you say you restarted do you mean disable and re enable? or did I miss something? — CoalaWeb, May 10 '14 at 08:39

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 02 '12 at 17:11

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you need to add your domain static.mydomain.com into "Alternate Domain Names(CNAMEs)" also make sure your files have read access to anyone, in other words, your files are public.

answered Aug 02 '12 at 17:11

Paul Ma

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The change will take time to propagate (~10min). So if at first you don't succeed, be patient! – Alexis Canyon May 17 '16 at 01:19

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