Virtual hosting of Bucket on Amazon S3

Amazon S3 Virtual hosting of Bucket :

On the Internet,

• Virtual hosting is the provision given by Web server hosting services so that a company (or an individual) doesn't have to purchase and maintain its own Web server.
• A virtual hosting provider is sometimes called a Web or Internet "space provider."
• Virtual hosting , is the practice of serving multiple web sites from a single web server.
• Using Amazon  S3 Virtual Hosting, You can use your own domain name in an Amazon S3 bucket .
• The formats of URL which are used by Amazon S3 are :
  • s3.amazonaws.com/bucketname/filename.
  • bucketname.s3.amazonaws.com/filename.
• For example :- s3.amazonaws.com/myimage/image1.jpg .
  Here bucket name is " myimage " and file name is " image1.jpg"

Bucket name as Virtual Host :

To host a website in Amazon S3 using this method, you must setup your domain name as a CNAME alias for s3.amazonaws.com .

• Identify the exact name of your domain.
• Create a bucket whose name is same as your domain
  name.
• Put your contents into this bucket and assign Read permission to AllUsers.

Furthermore, by naming your bucket as your registered domain name and by making that name a DNS alias for Amazon  S3 , you can completely customize the URL of your Amazon  S3 resources.

Now, the steps to get " Bucket Name as virtual host " with Bucket Explorer are :

• Create a bucket with “ Create bucket ” option, by giving the bucket name same as the domain name.
• Upload the files in this bucket with the “ upload Object(s) ” option.
• Select the object and right click to choose option “ Generate Web URL ”
• Click on “ Use Bucket Name as Virtual Host ” button.
• You will get the urls as “ Bucket name as virtual host ”.

For example, http://mybucketname.com   [Here bucket name is mybucketname.com ]

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