Cloudfront Directory Index Not Working about s3_website

[spudbean]

@philipithomas perhaps what you are seeing is a configuration problem with CloudFront, as described here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15309113/amazon-cloudfront-doesnt-respect-my-s3-website-buckets-index-html-rules

In your CloudFront distribution settings, Is your Origin Domain Name set to the "normal" domain name of the bucket, or the "external website" domain name of the bucket? If it is the "normal" domain name, then you aren't activating S3's "index.html" support. That is only available through the "external website" domain name. (See the Stack Overflow article for more information).

If that is the case, then I agree the example domain name in README.md could be improved.

[philipithomas]

I fixed the configuration on my cloudfront distribution to the endpoint (external) instead of the bucket (internal), but running s3_website cfg apply ended up changing the configuration to the internal bucket. Thus, the gem's configuration does not support the directory indices (and running it again breaks the configuration). This requires a further fix than the just the readme. I can update the Cloudfront configuration api call tomorrow and put it in a pull request. It should be fairly straightforward; I just haven't looked into the test coverage to see how many things such a change would break.

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/WebsiteEndpoints.html

[laurilehmijoki]

This issue is related to #30 (I just re-opened the issue).

[laurilehmijoki]

Yes, the configure-s3-website, which is responsible for creating the S3 bucket and the Cloudfront distribution, does not currently support other than S3 as an origin. That's why s3_website cfg apply overwrites your setting.

I've created a new issue on the configure-s3-website about this problem.

[laurilehmijoki]

Let's continue solving this problem in #30.

[laurilehmijoki]

This problem should be fixed in the release 1.6.1.

Please give the s3_website cfg create and s3_website cfg apply commands a try. I have them working as expected, but I'd like to hear your experience as well.

Edit: more info here: #30 (comment).