AWS Cloudfront doesn't support ALB site as an Origin

[hashibot]

This issue was originally opened by @aloysiuschang as hashicorp/terraform#10572. It was migrated here as part of the provider split. The original body of the issue is below.

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Hello everyone

On document said terraform support S3 or Website be a Origin, but I try many time get same error is: The parameter Origin DomainName does not refer to a valid S3 bucket

Here's my cloudfront.tf

resource "aws_cloudfront_distribution" "my_web_site" {
  origin {
    domain_name = "#{aws_alb.website.dns_name}"
    origin_id = "website_access_id"

  }
  enabled = true

  logging_config {
    include_cookies = false
    bucket          = "mywebsiteaccesslogcf.s3.amazonaws.com"
  }

  default_cache_behavior {
    allowed_methods = [HEAD, DELETE, POST, GET, OPTIONS, PUT, PATCH]
    cached_methods = ["HEAD", "GET"]
    compress = true
    target_origin_id = "website_access_id"

    forwarded_values {
      query_string = false
      cookies {
        forward = "none"
      }
    }

    viewer_protocol_policy = "allow-all"
    min_ttl     = 0
    default_ttl = 3600
    max_ttl     = 86400
  }

  restrictions {
    geo_restriction {
      restriction_type = "none"
    }
  }

  tags {
    Environment = "${var.environment_name}"
  }

  viewer_certificate {
    iam_certificate_id = "${var.elb_cert}"
    ssl_support_method = "sni-only"
  }
}

and I got this error below:

`Error applying plan:

1 error(s) occurred:

• aws_cloudfront_distribution.my_web_site: InvalidArgument: The parameter Origin DomainName does not refer to a valid S3 bucket.
  status code: 400, request id: 242113c0-bc4d-11e6-afa0-5da45ee7023c
  `

[roarmstrong]

I encountered this error as well. My solution was adding a custom_origin_config block to origin. If you don't specify a custom_origin_config Terraform will create an empty s3_origin_config. See https://github.com/terraform-providers/terraform-provider-aws/blob/a45d3a5db79961a537316bec331104def16a617b/aws/cloudfront_distribution_configuration_structure.go#L662

[jarrettj]

Is it possible? Or a not going to add feature? Thanks.

[jarrettj]

Nevermind! Thanks @roarmstrong :)

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