Add parameter to CloudFront URL and access it over custom domain

Question

Hey,

I have a specific problem: I have a CloudFront distribution which gets content from a S3 Bucket. The bucket has two folders: manual with subfolders and factsheet with subfolders.
Is  it possible to add a parameter to the CloudFront URL like: example.cloudfront.net/manual to get all content from the manual folder? I tried this with behaviours (manual/subfolder/*) but it didnt work.

The next thing would be to make it accessible with a custom domain. If I have subdomain.example.com I would like to access example.cloudfront.net/manual/subfolder with subdomain.example.com/manual/subfolder.

BR
Mark

Answer

Hello.

When CloudFront requests a resource from S3, it requests the URL path as is from S3, so it is not possible to retrieve it without specifying the file name in the URL.  
So, for example, to display test.html in the folder "example.cloudfront.net/manual", you need to enter "example.cloudfront.net/manual/test.html".  
I don't think you can display files with the setting "manual/subfolder/*".

You can set up a custom domain on CloudFront by following the steps in the document below.  
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/CNAMEs.html

Add parameter to CloudFront URL and access it over custom domain

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