Use my own domain + AWS CloudFront + wordpress.com

  • Unknown's avatar
    semyonslepov · Member ·

    Hi

    I already have a domain that points to my company’s website: website.com
    This website is served by AWS CloudFront.

    I need to create a WP blog which pages will be available under website.com/blog or something like this.

    My current plan is the following:

    – create a WP setup
    – create a Custom Origin in AWS CloudFront that will point to the new WP setup (identified by IP address and some other domain, not website.com)
    – reconfigure CloudFront distribution for website.com, so that requests to website.com/blog and some other handlers will be served by the WP setup (proxied to it)

    In other words, it will look like this:

    web-browser -> website.com/blog (CloudFront) -> wp-setup (internal proxy)

    Is it possible to achieve this with wordpress.com?

    If yes, then how? Can I use a subdomain (e.g. blog.website.com) for the WP setup on wordpress.com and proxy traffic to it from website.com/blog (CloudFront)?

    I guess WP will need to know about the main domain anyway. Can I just add it in its configuration but without changing DNS for it? So, website.com will still point to my CloudFront distribution, and CloudFront in turn will proxy traffic to wordpress.com?

    Thanks in advance!

    I don’t have a site with WordPress.com yet

  • Unknown's avatar
    helper-heroponriki · Member ·

    With a Business Plan or above, it is possible to do this, but WordPress.com Support would not be able to help set it up or support any issues with the site as CloudFront would prevent us from using our support tools.

    If you need more enterprise level hosting and support, you can check out WordPress VIP, otherwise you would need to research and choose your own hosting provider.

    I hope that helps!

  • Unknown's avatar
    semyonslepov · Member ·

    Thanks for the answer!

    Business Plan is the most likely option I will use for this blog, so no problem here. It’s arguably too earlier to go for the WordPress VIP option, as the blog is not going to serve too much traffic yet.

    I’m ok to set up CloudFront and WP to work together, as I already have a similar set up with WordPress deployed manually.

    What does the Business Plan enable that makes it possible to achieve this configuration with wordpress.com? Is it some kind of WP plugin or anything else?

    Thanks again!

  • fstat · Staff ·

    Hi there,

    What does the Business Plan enable that makes it possible to achieve this configuration with wordpress.com? Is it some kind of WP plugin or anything else?

    Yes, it’s done with the use of this official plugin:

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/amazon-polly/

    You can find more information here:

    https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/WordPressPlugIn.html

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