How to force cloudfront to use https (redirect http -> https)

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I am hosting a static site on aws via s3/coludfront. Anyway I can force cloudfront to redirect all http request to https version.

score 16 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 19 '17 at 09:06

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To force http -> https.

Go to the cloudfront distribution
Select the distribution
Go to behaviour
select the one and click edit
Now you have a option of redirecting http -> https

answered Feb 19 '17 at 09:06

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See https://stackoverflow.com/a/46481196/5473824 for how this is done in cloudformation . – Adrian Baker Jul 26 '18 at 22:47

score 5 · Answer 2 · edited Nov 25 '19 at 20:52

If you're using CloudFormation:

Resources:
  Distribution:
    Type: AWS::CloudFront::Distribution
    Properties:
      ...
      DistributionConfig:
        DefaultCacheBehavior:
          ViewerProtocolPolicy: redirect-to-https
        ...

Previous answer said to use https-only but that will return a 403 (Forbidden) if the viewer sends an HTTP request.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/latest/APIReference/API_CacheBehavior.html

How to force cloudfront to use https (redirect http -> https)

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