I would like to redirect a link as www.example.com/test to a bucket called test.example.com on S3. As far as I know, Apache has a file called .htaccess that does the trick. I'm able to redirect from test.example.com to a bucket on S3, but I don't know how to do it with the deep link thing. Is that possible?
It seems there is no way to accomplish that. I have seen many posts describing amazon s3 as a "very simple container". I solved my problem by creating a folder named test on the main bucket (www.example.com) with a html page redirecting to the actual bucket test.example.com. The best solution is to move to an apache container service, but for the moment I want to keep it simple.
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We are white labelling site so that mysite.com and site.com and site2.com all share the same code base but different front end UI. They use a lot of the same images, including product images, which are hosted on Amazon S3. The s3 bucket name is based off site.com such that the host is:
https://siteDOTcom-new.s3.amazonaws.com/
Now, we don't care what the Amazon S3 url looks like but some clients do, so we're trying to figure out how to do it. We've tried CNAMEs but that didn't work out. Is it possible to have multiple subdomain aliases for the same S3 bucket?
You should look into Amazon Cloudfront for two reasons:
It would allow you to point to the same s3 buckets with different URLs (e.g. http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/CNAMEs.html)
As a CDN, it will give better downloading speeds for people using your site
Is it possible to do that? I need to be able to access mydomain.com by typing in my-domain.com in the address bar of the browser?
Now I added a DNS entry:
my-domain.com CNAME mydomain.com
But this doesn't seem to work. I get an 404 not found error.
You can only map a single domain to your S3 bucket. However you could use Cloudfront to do this.
See my answer to another similar question for more information.
We had the same issue and basically I set our CI to publish to two S3 buckets on release. Not ideal but keeps you clear from resetting caches in CloudFront on publish for the short term.
I am considering moving one of my very static sites to use Amazon's Simple Storage Service. I have read a few articles describing how I can load the files in and set things up so that http://www.example.com/ is directed at those files, but is there a way I can ensure that people who go to http://example.com/ get 301'd to http://www.example.com/?
Just a heads up for those who find this, S3 now support main root domain. You no longer have to do a redirect.
I have set up an S3 bucket to host static files.
When using the website endpoint (http://.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/): it forces me to set an index file. When the file isn't found, it throws an error instead of listing directory contents.
When using the s3 endpoint (.s3.amazonaws.com): I get an XML listing of the files, but I need an HTML listing that users can click the link to the file.
I have tried setting the permissions of all files and the bucket itself to "List" for "Everyone" in the AWS Console, but still no luck.
I have also tried some of the javascript alternatives, but they either don't work under the website url (that redirects to the index file) or just don't work at all. As a last resort, a collapsible javascript listing would be better than nothing, but I haven't found a good one.
Is this possible? If so, do I need to change permissions, ACL or something else?
I've created a simple bit of JS that creates a directory index in HTML style that you are looking for: https://github.com/rgrp/s3-bucket-listing
The README has specific instructions for handling Amazon S3 "website" buckets: https://github.com/rgrp/s3-bucket-listing#website-buckets
You can see a live example of the script in action on this s3 bucket (in website mode): http://data.openspending.org/
There is also this solution: https://github.com/caussourd/aws-s3-bucket-listing
Similar to https://github.com/rgrp/s3-bucket-listing but I couldn't make it work with Internet Explorer. So https://github.com/caussourd/aws-s3-bucket-listing works with IE and also add the possibility to order the files by names, size and date. On the downside, it doesn't follow folders: only the files at one level are displayed.
This might solve your problem. Security settings for Everyone group:
(you need the bucketexplorer.com software for this)
If you are sharing files of HTTP, you may or may not want people to be able to list the contents of a bucket (folder.) If you want the bucket contents to be listed when someone enters the bucket name (http://s3.amazonaws.com/bucket_name/), then edit the Access Control List and give the Everyone group the access level of Read (and do likewise with the contents of the bucket.) If you don’t want the bucket contents list-able but do want to share the file within it, disable Read access for the Everyone group for the bucket itself, and then enable Read access for the individual files within the bucket.
I created a much simpler solution. Just place the index.html file in root of your folder and it will do the job. No configuration required. https://github.com/prabhatsharma/s3-directorylisting
I had a similar problem and created a JavaScript-and-iframe solution that works pretty well for listing directories in S3 website files. You just have to drop a couple of .html files into the directory you want to list. You can find it here:
https://github.com/adam-p/s3-file-list-page
I found s3browser, which allowed me to set up a directory on the main web site that allowed browsing of the s3 bucket. It worked very well and was very easy to set up.
Using another approach base in pure JavaScript and AWS SDK JavaScript API. Not need PHP or other engine just pure web site (Apache or even IIS).
https://github.com/juvs/s3-bucket-browser
Not intent for deploy on your own bucket (for me, no make sense).
Using the new IAM Users from AWS you can provide more specific and secure access to your buckets. No need to publish your bucket to website and make all public.
If you want secure the access, you can use the conventional methods to authenticate users for your current web site.
Hope this help too!
Is there a way to make S3 default to an index.html page? E.g.: My bucket object listing:
/index.html
/favicon.ico
/images/logo.gif
A call to www.example.com/index.html works great! But if one were to call www.example.com/ we'd either get a 403 or a REST object listing XML document depending on how bucket-level ACL was configured.
So, the question: Is there a way to have index.html functionality with content hosted on S3?
For people still struggling against this after 3 years, let me add some important information:
The URL for your website (and to which you have to point your DNS) is not
<bucket_name>.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com, but
<bucket_name>.s3-website-us-west-2.amazonaws.com.
If you use the first, it will not work as intended, no matter how much you config the Index document.
For a specific example, consider:
http://www-example-com.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html works.
http://www-example-com.s3.amazonaws.com/ fails with AccessDenied.
http://www-example-com.s3-website-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ works!
To get your true website address, go to your S3 Management Console, select the target bucket, then Properties, then Static Website Hosting. It will show the website URL that will work.
Amazon S3 now supports Index Documents
The index document for a bucket can be set to something like index.html. When accessing the root of the site or a sub-directory containing a document of that name that document is returned.
It is extremely easy to do using the aws cli:
aws s3 website $MY_BUCKET_NAME --index-document index.html
You can set the index document from the AWS Management Console:
You can easily solve it by Amazon CloudFront link. At Amazon CloudFront you could modify the root object. You can download manager here: m1.mycloudbuddy.com/downloads.html.
Since It's been long time, this question being asked, and Amazon S3 changing their Interface. I would like to answer with updated screenshots.
We need to enable 'static web hosting' for S3 to serve as web hosting.
- Go to Properties -> click on static web hosting -> Select 'use this bucket to host a website'
- Enter the index document (index.html by default), error document and redirection rules, if any.
As answered in this answer on Stack Overflow, web hosting link would be: http://bucket-name.s3-website-region.amazonaws.com
I would suggest reading this thread from 2006 (On Amazon web services developers connection). It seems there's no easy solution to this.
Yes. using AWS Cloudfront lets you assign a default file.
you can do it using dns webforwards and cloaking. just forward to the complete path of the index.html
www.example.com forwards to http://www.example.com.s3.amazonaws.com and make sure you cloak the output.