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Configuring CDN

CloudFront​

You need to configure your matching CloudFront domain name with exposedDomain directive:

# silta.yml
exposedDomain:
  cloudfront:
    hostname: www.example.com # matching domain name configured in CloudFront

Origin connection during Lets Encrypt certificate verification process​

Eventually you want your CDN to use Silta origin using https-only origin protocol policy.

However, it is important to understand that you may need to temporarly use http-only during the phase of initial Lets Encrypt certificate verification process. Also, during this phase, you want to disable all https to http redirects from CloudFront Cache behaviors and from silta.yml:

# silta.yml (when using Lets Encrypt)
ingress:
  default:
    # Allow HTTP connections for CloudFront, when
    # Lets Encrypt verifies certs for the first time.
    redirect-https: false

Note: If you don't allow http traffic, and your environment is issuing a certificate with Lets Encrypt for the first time, Silta provides temporarly self-signed certificate which will cause CloudFront to not trust the origin and causes 502 Bad Gateway error, thus failing the actual certificate verification process.

Custom certificates​

If you decide to use custom verified certificate, then you may configure everything directly to https-only and skip steps allowing http origin requests temporarly.

Forwarding Host header​

You want Drupal to generate URLs according to the domain and scheme that user is accessing the site.

Without forwarding Host header, Drupal would use its' Silta domain and scheme (for example https://production.my-project.dev.[clusterDomain]) to generate content URL addresses.

To overcome this problem, you must configure CloudFront to forward Host header to origin.

To do this, apply cache policies under "Cache behaviors" tab and either:

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