Amazon CloudFront Management Tool
This tool enables you to manage your CloudFront distributions via Ruby or command line.
Requirements
gem install aws-cloudfront
General Usage
cloudfront_cmd.rb <parameters> <command>
Parameters
--access-key <access key>
your AWS access key id
--secret-access-key <secret key>
the corresponding AWS secret access key
--distribution-id <id>
the AWS CloudFront distribution id. It can be found on the AWS Management Console.
Setting a root object
Set the root object that gets returned when the root url of the distribution is called:
cloudfront_cmd.rb <parameters> set_default_root_object <object>
<object> - a file name that exists in the distribution
Example:
cloudfront_cmd.rb \
--distribution-id AB12FWEEXAMPLE \
--access-key 15B4D3461BDF1EXAMPLE \
--secret-access-key "AQE0diMbLRepdf3YBDF/EXAMPLE" \
set_default_root_object "index.html"
Invalidating objects
If an object on S3 gets overwritten by a newer version a redistribution through CloudFront isn’t triggered automatically. Therefore you have to invalidate the objects afterwards.
cloudfront_cmd.rb <parameters> invalidate_objects <list of objects>
<list of objects> - space seperated list of absolute path names for files to invalidate
Example:
cloudfront_cmd.rb \
--distribution-id AB12FWEEXAMPLE \
--access-key 15B4D3461BDF1EXAMPLE \
--secret-access-key "AQE0diMbLRepdf3YBDF/EXAMPLE" \
invalidate_objects "/index.html" "/styles.css"
Author
Copyright
Copyright © 2010 il tempo - Alexander Greim, released under the MIT license