AWS static website apex domain returns 403, www subdomain works fine

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I am creating a static website with AWS S3, CloudFront, Route 53, and AWS Certificate Manger. The www subdomain of my website (https://www.lnkrecall.org/) works fine, but the apex domain does not:

  • http://lnkrecall.org/ returns 403 ERROR The request could not be satisfied. and does not redirect to HTTPS as it should.
  • https://lnkrecall.org/ displays This site can’t provide a secure connection in Google Chrome

Configuration details:

  • The certificate I created in AWS Certificate Manager covers both lnkrecall.org and *.lnkrecall.org
  • In Route 53, there is one A record for each of lnkrecall.org and www.lnkrecall.org that both point to the same ...cloudfront.net. distribution
  • That distribution lists the www subdomain as a CNAME and has a Protocol Policy of Redirect HTTP to HTTPS

Evidently the apex domain is somehow configured differently from the subdomain, but I can't spot it

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" www subdomain as a CNAME" - what about lnkrecall.org? Its not in your CF distro as altenrative domain? - Marcin
It wasn't, because I was under the impression that it wasn't necessary. But having added it, I see that it is. Thank you! I'd mark your answer correct if you want to post one. - John Skiles Skinner

1 Answers

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Based on the comments.

The issue was that apex domain was not added to CF distribution as an alternative name.

The solution was to add the domain to CF distribution.