How do you set a default root object for subdirectories for a statically hosted website on Cloudfront?

Question

How do you set a default root object for subdirectories on a statically hosted website on Cloudfront? Specifically, I\'d like www.example.com/subdir/index.html

Answer 1

There IS a way to do this. Instead of pointing it to your bucket by selecting it in the dropdown (www.example.com.s3.amazonaws.com), point it to the static domain of your bucket (eg. www.example.com.s3-website-us-west-2.amazonaws.com):

Thanks to This AWS Forum thread