medley S3 web server notes

These steps will set up both your apex domain (example.com) and your www sub-domain (www.example.com). Replace example.com with your custom domain name.

open the AWS S3 console and click on "Create a bucket"
create a bucket named www.example.com (the name must match your custom domain)
pick an AWS region near you or your customers (I picked U.S. West Oregon)
turn off Block All Public Access (we will change this later) so no checkboxes are checked
acknowledge that you are making it public, then click Create a bucket at the bottom
back on the AWS Amazon S3 > Buckets page click on the bucket name you just created
click on the Properties tab
scroll to the bottom and click on the Edit button for Static website building
click the enable button, enter "index.html" and optionally "error.html" and click Save changes
click on the Permissions tab
scroll down to the Bucket policy section and click on the Edit button

add this JSON, changing the highlighted to your bucket name (keep the /* at the end)

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Sid": "PublicReadGetObject",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Principal": {
              "AWS": "*"
            },
            "Action": [
                "s3:GetObject"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "arn:aws:s3:::www.example.com/*"
            ]
        }
    ]
}

click Save Changes
click on the Objects tab
click on the file upload button on the right and drag and drop an index.html and error.html file
index.html sample: Hello Web!
error.html sample: Something terrible has happened!
click on the Close button
test the web server by changing the highlighted parts and going to:
http://www.example.com .s3-website-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/
now set up a second S3 bucket for the apex domain example.com (no www prefix)
repeat steps 2 - 5 but with the bucket named example.com (no www prefix)
click on the Properties tab
enable web hosting
this time set Hosting type to Redirect requests
set the host name to www.example.com (so now everything gets redirected to www)
set the protocol to https and click Save changes
test the second bucket by replacing the highlights:
http://www.example.com .s3-website-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/

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