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Amazon S3 Cookbook (n)

By : Naoya Hashimoto
Book Image

Amazon S3 Cookbook (n)

By: Naoya Hashimoto

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Amazon S3 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

How to configure a static website using a custom domain


In the How to configure a static website on Amazon S3 bucket recipe, we created a static website on Amazon S3 bucket and we can access the website through a website endpoint. However, most of the customers want to use your custom domain for your website such as http://<your-blog-site>.com/ or http://www.<your-blog-site>.com/. In order to use a custom domain, we need to create two S3 buckets, configure a website redirect, and use Route 53 for creating a DNS record.

Getting ready

We hosted a static website on Amazon S3. Then, let's configure a static website using your custom domain.

We use two buckets to allow access for both http://www.<your_domain>/ and http://<your_domain> by redirecting from www.<your_domain> to <your_domain>.

Regarding redirect, this section describes from www.hashnao.info to hashnao.info.

Make sure that you meet the following requirements:

  • Request and register your domain name for...