Delete a Distribution

Prerequisite: Only contract administrators, owners, and users with accessAndManageCdn privilege can create and manage CDN distributions via the API. You can also set user privileges in the DCD. For more information, see Set User Privileges.

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

Note: The following request contains a sample distributionId. Replace them with the distributionId value, whose information you want to retrieve.

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'

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

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, Generate authentication token.
Content-Type	yes	string	Set this to application/json.

Response

202 Successful operation

Result: The CDN distribution for the specified distributionID is successfully deleted.