Thursday, January 10, 2013; 11:52:53 AM Eastern
The path to static nirvana
- If you're using the new static sites feature on S3 here's something to watch out for.
- I decided over the holidays to move scripting.com to a static site running on Amazon S3.
It went pretty well, though uploading a folder with a huge number of files is something that we don't have good tools for with S3. But eventually I got it all up there, using a Firefox plug-in, called S3Fox Organizer. I had been using it for years, but forgot about it when I switched to Chrome last year. If you're managing large static S3 sites it's nice to have it around.- Then at the end, I had as a loose-end to do the same for www.scripting.com. I wanted to have it simply redirect to scripting.com from an S3 bucket. I thought this would be a simple matter, but it turned out to be impossible, leaving me in a tough bind that I'm still in.
- The reason I can't do it:
- 1. Amazon rightly requires that bucket names be unique.
- 2. Someone has a bucket named www.scripting.com. Don't ask me why, I have no idea.
- 3. Therefore I can't have a bucket named www.scripting.com, even though I registered the domain, a long long time ago. No one has ever had it but me.
- I haven't tried to figure out who it is, but I probably should, and ask them nicely if they could give it up.
- Right now I have a dynamic server running on EC2 doing the remap. But www.scripting.com gets a lot of traffic. It's the primary name the site went by until I became a fan of shorter names. :-)
