Set Default Root Object for Statically Hosted Website on AWS CloudFront (AWS CloudFront Functions)

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A standard AWS CloudFront distribution is set to automatically serve the index.html file of a website when a client requests the root of the site, e.g. https://www.geekmungus.co.uk and does not specify any specific file or file within a sub-directory. However in certain instances your clients may request a page as follows e.g: https://www.geekmungus.co.uk/studies within which an index.html […]

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Extreme Networks VOSS (Fabric) Edge Port Delay Reason and Remediation

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We’ve recently started to move to an Extreme Networks VOSS Fabric based network, however due to the scale, we can’t change everything attached to it to work more seamlessly with the VOSS fabric based network operation. We have a large number of hosts for example that use Active-Backup bonding on their NICs when connecting to […]

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Static Website Hosting/Publishing using AWS S3, AWS CloudFront, SSL Certificate and Custom FQDN

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Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network operated by Amazon Web Services. Content delivery networks provide a globally-distributed network of proxy servers to cache content, such as web videos or other bulky media, more locally to consumers, to improve access speed for downloading the content (citation). Although AWS CloudFront can be used as a CDN (caching […]

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Simple Web Application Firewall (WAF) CloudFormation Template

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A Web Application Firewall (WAF), is a layer of protection you can add to your web application. Adding a WAF to an Application Load Balancer (ALB) is pretty straightforward. You need to create at least one WebACL, to which you configure some rules (that filter the traffic), you can then attach the WebACL to the […]

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check_http Gives 403 Forbidden Error Monitoring Site via AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB)

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We’ve started to host websites on AWS, we want to monitor using NagiosXI, but we got some odd results when first attempting to. The web application has no “index.html” page, which is one cause of the 403 forbidden error. However we were getting the same thing even when specifying the correct path. It turns out […]

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