Daily Miscellany: Using CloudFront to set up custom domain for Drummer

I was able to set up a reverse Proxy using AWS CloudFront. This is a pretty easy method for using a custom domain on a Drummer blog and doesn't require setting up a server. You will need an AWS account. Once setup go to AWS CloudFront and "Create a distribution." Below are the settings I used that varied from the default. Where you see "dailymiscellany.com" and "KenBooth" use your own domain name and Twitter handle.#

General Settings / Alternate Domain Name

www.dailymiscellany.com

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General Settings / Custom SSL Certificate

Follow the steps to “Request certificate.” You’ll need to have admin privileges on the domain you are trying to use. I used email verification.

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Origins / Origin Domain

oldschool.scripting.com

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Origins / Protocol

HTTP Only

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Origins / Origin Path

/KenBooth

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Behaviors / Viewer Protocol Policy

HTTP and HTTPS

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Behaviors / Cache Policy and Origin Request Policy

CachingDisabled

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Invalidations / Exclude

/*

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In Drummer under File/Edit OPML Headers I put

urlBlogWebsite = www.dailymiscellany.com

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For my DNS I entered a CNAME record for www.dailymiscellany.com pointing to my CloudFront distribution. I set up a URL redirect for the non-www version of the domain. #