object storage static site not serving index.html when accessed via external domain

Hey @sayajay - I was reading through the "Next Steps" portion of our static site guide, and it certainly looks like you're on the right track.

Based on the URLs you provided vs. the URLs I'm seeing on my own buckets, I'm not seeing the website- portion of tmp.mydomain.tld.website-us-east-1.linodeobjects.com. I'm not sure if this was just an example, but I would try copying/pasting the exact URL of your bucket into the CNAME record (if you haven't done it already).

It's also worth checking to make sure the CNAME hostname includes the subdomain portion of your bucket name. For example, if your bucket is named tmp.mydomain.tld, the hostname portion of the CNAME record should read the same. It looks like you may have already done this, but I thought I'd mention it just in case.

If you happen to get things working, please post your solution in case anyone else runs into the same thing. I'm curious myself!

I'm seeing this exact same issue. Requests to www.mydomain.tld.website-us-east-1.linodeobjects.com respect both the Index and Error document settings, but requests via the www.mydomain.tld CNAME do not. Additionally, my testing shows the website- portion is required for those settings to be respected as well.

I'm guessing that whatever is serving the content out of the buckets is looking for a Host header matching *.website-us-east-1.linodeobjects.com. For what it's worth, AWS gets around this by requiring that the bucket name must match the (sub)domain name, presumably so they can also match the Host header against bucket names as well.

I realized my last post may not have been super clear. So just to be clear: accessing objects works using all the mentioned domain names. What does not work is the implicit index and 404 pages using anything except the website- domain name.

@jdutton I have the same issue using a Cloudflare CNAME in front of Object Storage. https://mybucket.com.website-us-east-1.linodeobjects.com loads index.html as expected, and https://mybucket.com/index.html works, but https://mybucket.com loads the bucket listing XML instead of index.html. I'll have to find a different hosting provider if I can't get this solved soon.

I found that Cloudflare has their own object storage now (https://www.cloudflare.com/products/workers-kv/). I moved over there and was up and running quickly for the same $5/mo price.

@jdutton Same issue here.

I nailed it down to this not working when the request is proxied through CloudFlare (ie. when we leverage CloudFlare capabilities)

What can be done to use Linode object storage with CloudFlare?

same issue here!

Hey everyone. It looks like our Object Storage team is aware of the issues around using Cloudflare with our Object Storage.

In the meantime, there are some workarounds that were posted on another Community Question here: How can i setting cloudflare CNAME link Object Storage and use CDN

Specifically, your CNAME alias must match your bucket name. This would also require you to use the Linode DNS Manager to manage your CNAME DNS settings, rather than through Cloudflare.

@jdutton Do you have any recommended CDN service to integrate Linode's object storage static site?

Any update on this issue? I moved my domain from Cloudflare back to Namecheap and the issue still persists.

how to configure static site on object storage to work on root/apex? like "example.com"??