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How to use the new host-a-website feature on S3

By Dave Winer on Tuesday, March 08, 2011 at 1:28 PM.

You can find all the links on Werner Vogel's blog. I share his enthusiasm for the new host-a-website feature. I was asking for it for a long time. I guess, from reading the tea leaves, he was too. :-) Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Anyway, I had to do a bunch of trial and error to get my first S3-hosted static site configured. I wanted to leave a howto behind me so next time I won't have to do the head-scratching again. Maybe it will help you too.  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

A picture named money.jpgSuppose the domain you want to host on S3 is r2.reallysimple.org. And the index file for that domain will be index.html. This is what you do. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

1. Go to the S3 panel on the AWS website and create a new bucket called r2.reallysimple.org in the US-Standard region.  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

2. Upload a file called index.html to the new bucket. Say something simple like Hello World. You can copy the HTML from my test file if you want.  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

3. Click on Properties at the top of the right panel, then click on Website in the lower-right panel. Click the Enabled checkbox, and enter index.html as the Index Document. Click Save.  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

4. Click Permissions in the lower-right panel. Then click on Edit bucket policy. Paste in the template text you grab from this file. Edit it to replace YOUR-BUCKET-NAME-GOES-HERE with the name of your bucket (in the example r2.reallysimple.org). Click Save.  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

5. Now go to your domain registrar, and map r2.reallysimple.org as a CNAME to r2.reallysimple.org.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Now you should be able to go r2.reallysimple.org and see the text of your index file. :-) Permanent link to this item in the archive.
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