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# Delete a Distribution

IONOS CLOUD CDN: delete a CDN distribution using the API

{% hint style="info" %}
**Prerequisite:** Only contract administrators, owners, and users with `accessAndManageCdn` privilege can create and manage CDN distributions using the API. You can also set user privileges in the DCD. For more information, see [<mark style="color:blue;">Set User Privileges</mark>](/cloud/network-services/cdn/dcd-how-tos/set-user-privileges-cdn-dcd.md).
{% endhint %}

To delete a CDN distribution, perform a `DELETE` request with the `distributionID` of the CDN.

## Endpoint

Use the following endpoint to delete a CDN distribution: `https://cdn.de-fra.ionos.com/distributions/{distributionId}`.

## Request

{% hint style="info" %}
**Note:** The following request contains a sample `distributionId`. Replace them with the `distributionId` value, whose information you want to retrieve.
{% endhint %}

```bash
curl --location \
--request DELETE 'https://cdn.de-fra.ionos.com/distributions/9ba15778-16c4-543c-8775-e52acf4853f5' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJraWQiO' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json'
```

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="Path Parameters" %}
Below is the list of mandatory path parameter:

| **Path Parameter** | **Type** | **Description**                        | **Example**                            |
| ------------------ | -------- | -------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------- |
| `distributionId`   | string   | The ID (UUID) of the CDN distribution. | `9ba15778-16c4-543c-8775-e52acf4853f5` |
| {% endtab %}       |          |                                        |                                        |

{% tab title="Request Header Parameters" %}
To make authenticated requests to the API, the following fields are mandatory in the request header:

| **Header Parameters** | **Required** | **Type** | **Description**                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
| --------------------- | ------------ | -------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `Authorization`       | yes          | string   | The Bearer token enables requests to authenticate using a JSON Web Token (JWT). From the DCD, [<mark style="color:blue;">Generate authentication token</mark>](/cloud/set-up-ionos-cloud/management/identity-access-management/token-manager.md#generate-authentication-token). |
| `Content-Type`        | yes          | string   | Set this to `application/json`.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
| {% endtab %}          |              |          |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
| {% endtabs %}         |              |          |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |

## Response

**202 Successful operation**

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**Result:** The CDN distribution for the specified `distributionID` is successfully deleted.
{% endhint %}


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