Please read my 2 previous articles Use Amazon CloudFront for dynamic Websites -1 and Use Amazon CloudFront for dynamic Websites -2

In this article, I am going to show you how to create the CloudFront Distribution and test it.

Let’s get started!

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5. Create the CloudFront Distribution.

• CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) that caches and serves content from multiple edge locations worldwide.
• When you create a CloudFront distribution with the Application Load Balancer as the origin, it accelerates the delivery of the dynamic PHP webpage, reducing latency and improving user experience.

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2. Origin Domain Name: Select the Load balancer my-LB that you created

• take defaults

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Note: enable the query string forwarding because our server can accept the query string parameter ID

Note: The TTL option will be in disabled for dynamic contents by setting it to 0.

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• Take all defaults

• Click on the Create distribution

5. Status column shows Deploying, and then shows Last Modified Date for your distribution. Wait for the deployment to complete.

Note: Wait for This process will take around 4-5 minutes.

6. Test the distribution.

1. test the CloudFront distribution to verify that it is correctly serving content from the EC2 instances through the Application Load Balancer.

• Copy the CloudFront distribution Domain name and paste it in the browser and hit [enter].

2. refresh the page and see the instance ID change, and the time will keep incrementing.

3. Pass the query string parameter to CloudFront domain.

http://<domain name>/?id=CloudFront

http://dua7m5h1l3jyg.cloudfront.net/?id=CloudFront

Cleanup

• Delete Security Group and EC2 instance
• Remove index.php file from S3 bucket
• Delete Target Group and Load Balancer
• Delete Cloudfront Distribution

What we have done so far

• We have successfully created and tested the CloudFront Distribution with the Application Load Balancer as the origin.
• It show how it accelerates the delivery of the dynamic PHP webpage, reducing latency and improving user experience.