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

@johan-gorter indicated above that CloudFront serves file with keys ending by / After investigation, it appears that this option works, and that one can create this type of files in S3 programatically. Therefore, I wrote a small lambda that is triggered when a file is created on S3, with a suffix index.html or index.htm

What it does is copying an object dir/subdir/index.html into an object dir/subdir/

import json
import boto3

s3_client = boto3.client("s3")

def lambda_handler(event, context):

    for f in event['Records']:

        bucket_name = f['s3']['bucket']['name']
        key_name = f['s3']['object']['key']
        source_object = {'Bucket': bucket_name, 'Key': key_name}

        file_key_name = False

        if key_name[-10:].lower() == "index.html" and key_name.lower() != "index.html":
            file_key_name = key_name[0:-10]
        elif key_name[-9:].lower() == "index.htm" and key_name.lower() != "index.htm":
            file_key_name = key_name[0:-9]
        
        if file_key_name:
            s3_client.copy_object(CopySource=source_object, Bucket=bucket_name, Key=file_key_name)