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Amazon AWS Cloudfront buckets choking on autossl sites

adonius
We were using AWS Cloudfront CDN buckets for a while no problem then we moved to a new server. They worked at first then the autossl cert thing kicked in and now sites are doing ssl often. So we changed the main sites to look for ssl in wordpress where you set site setting Now it appears the buckets will not resolve On AWS end, they offer no support with their trial cdn which is good for a year, so when you have a problem, they force you to convert to a paid plan, well we are still testing it and it's barely 2 months old with 40 bucks and we have 500 sites to migrate to the cloud, so I'd say it was still 'beta'. Anyway, in AWS you can edit old buckets 'origin' to say https only, did that nothing. We created new buckets saying origin ssl, nothing. I read years ago they had issues with SNI certs and it was 'resolved', so it looks like autossl certs are causing CloudFront to choke. Anyone else running a CloudFront bucket with autossl certs? Oh we use W3 as the WPO plugin in wordpress and the speed we get from just that is almost as fast as CDN on a reload with cache. Typical 2mb page open in wp on our server is 1.5 seconds After W3 800 milliseconds After CDN 500 or so milliseconds So all was well until autossl kicked in and now we set our top wp sites to force ssl in site path in general settings and that made AWS spin and not resolve. Tried to change origin on AWS and their 'free forum' for support won't even let you post. What a joke AWS is, they give you a trail, don't let you use their forum and force you to go for a year of payments to even ask a question. If anyone has another CDN working right with autossl we're all ears on that. Or is anyone knows for sure SNI and Autossl is a no go at aws, please advise so I can spear Bezos publicly again on how bad his tech is.

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  • cPanelMichael
    Hello @adonius, The closest documentation I could find on this topic is located at: Using HTTPS with CloudFront - Amazon CloudFront You may also want to review this third-party URL: Setting Up SSL on AWS CloudFront and S3 | Bryce Fisher-Fleig The instructions about generating/purchasing the certificate wouldn't apply, but the additional instructions may help. Keep in mind this is unsupported. Thank you.
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  • adonius
    Thanks, I've been trying a few different things to try to get CF to work right. I was doing great on our old server with http, then as soon as we migrated it worked on new server and when the autossl kicked in and started to do ssl on the sites it just stopped resolving so over 40 bucks got removed Now we rebuilt some using
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