Redirect working from www xyz com to https xyz com but not from https www xyz com

Question

I've hosted a static website on AWS using S3, CloudFront and Route53.

I issued a certificate (covering *.xyz.com and xyz.com) with Certificate Manager and everything is working fine when I enter xyz.com and www.xyz.com. Both URLs redirect to https://xyz.com, which is exactly what I want.

But if i try to go to https://www.xyz.com it does not work, although http://www.xyz.com does work. Why is that?

I'm assuming I'm doing something wrong in Route53 or CloudFront.

Answer 1

1. Make sure you have created the certificate in us-east-1 region to be used with Cloudfront.

2. Make sure you have entered both www.example.com and example.com in CloudFront Alternate CNAME entries.

3. Make sure the behavior is set to Redirect HTTP to HTTPS

4. Make sure index.html file is present in the origin. It can also be specified explicitly in Cloudfront distribution.

If you can provide your distribution settings, it would be helpful.