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How to test that a CloudFront Distrobution works as intended
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How to check that a cloudfront distro will work

Problem

You have some Elastic Beanstalk/Load Balancer that you want to attach multiple domains to. You want to use Route 53 to point to a CloudFront Distrobution, which will point at the ELB/EBS.

Solution

  • Go to Cloudfront
  • Create a new distro
  • BE SURE TO FORWARD ALL HEADERS/COOKIES/QUERY STRINGS/EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO ORIGIN
  • Set the CNames/SSL as needed

Once the distro is created,

  • Run nslookup <cloudfront url> to get the IP address of the cloudfront server

  • edit your /etc/hosts file and add <ip address of cloudfront> <domain you are trying to set up>

    • For instance, if you wanted to test abc.com and Cloudfront's IP is 1.2.3.4, you would add the following line to /etc/hosts:
    1.2.3.4 abc.com

  • Now in your browser/using cURL, make a request to abc.com. You should see the origin server responding to your requests.

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