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0 pointsdrchewbacca6y ago0 comments

Yeah I managed to get the file into the bucket. However I couldn't get the permissions to let it be publicly visible despite working through several tutorials.

I ended up on Netlify, it's 1000x more my speed.

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cloakandswagger6y ago

I've never used S3 to host a website before so I decided to try this and see if it's really that complicated.

First, I searched for "host static website on S3" and found an AWS docs page with a walkthrough.

Then, I created an S3 bucket through the console. I uploaded a "hello world" index.html file to it.

Then I went to Properties, checked "Use this bucket to host a website" and gave it the name of my index file. When I clicked Save, I had a hosted HTML file that I could navigate to.

I'm struggling to see how it could be simpler than that. What exact problems did you run into?

drchewbaccaOP6y ago

So this was a while ago and I fully admit it might have been me being stupid.

However when I was doing it I don't think there was a "Use this bucket to host a website" button. Instead you had to give the bucket a special type of permissions which meant anyone could see the contents but no one could write to it. I kept following the guide as closely as I could but I couldn't get it to take.

cloakandswagger6y ago

Maybe it's been updated since then. This is the guide I followed: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/HostingWebsi...

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cloakandswagger6y ago

I've never used S3 to host a website before so I decided to try this and see if it's really that complicated.

First, I searched for "host static website on S3" and found an AWS docs page with a walkthrough.

Then, I created an S3 bucket through the console. I uploaded a "hello world" index.html file to it.

Then I went to Properties, checked "Use this bucket to host a website" and gave it the name of my index file. When I clicked Save, I had a hosted HTML file that I could navigate to.

I'm struggling to see how it could be simpler than that. What exact problems did you run into?

drchewbaccaOP6y ago

So this was a while ago and I fully admit it might have been me being stupid.

cloakandswagger6y ago

Maybe it's been updated since then. This is the guide I followed: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/HostingWebsi...

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j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse