-[[template id=plugin name=amazon_s3 author="[[Joey]]"]]
-[[tag type/special-purpose]]
+[[!template id=plugin name=amazon_s3 author="[[Joey]]"]]
+[[!tag type/special-purpose]]
This plugin allows ikiwiki to publish a wiki in the [Amazon Simple Storage
Service](http://aws.amazon.com/s3) (S3). As pages are rendered, ikiwiki
will upload them to Amazon S3. The entire wiki contents, aside from the
ikiwiki CGI, can then be served directly out of Amazon S3.
-You'll need the [[cpan Net::Amazon::S3]] and [[cpan File::MimeInfo]] perl
+You'll need the [[!cpan Net::Amazon::S3]] and [[!cpan File::MimeInfo]] perl
modules and an Amazon S3 account to use this plugin.
## configuration
-Important note: You should seriously consider turning off `usedirs` before
-enabling this plugin. If `usedirs` is enabled, every page has to be stored
-in S3 *twice*, as "page/index.html" and as "page/". That will cost you
-money and bandwidth.
-
This plugin uses the following settings in the setup file:
* `amazon_s3_key_id` - Set to your public access key id.
set it to "foo", then the url will be
"http://foo.s3.amazonaws.com/wiki/".
* `amazon_s3_prefix` - A prefix to prepend to each page name.
- The default is "wiki/". Note that due to S3 limitations (lack of support
- for uploading a root key), it is not possible to set the prefix to an
- empty string.
+ The default is "wiki/". Note: In order to host your site at the root,
+ it needs to be set to "", and you'll have to
+ [read this](http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2011/02/host-your-static-website-on-amazon-s3.html)
+ for details about configuring your S3 bucket as a website.
* `amazon_s3_location` - Optionally, this can be set to control which
datacenter to use. For example, set it to "EU" to for Europe.
+* `amazon_s3_dupindex` - Normally, when `usedirs` is enabled,
+ "foo/index.html" is stored in S3 as a key named "foo/", and all links
+ between pages use that name. If you also needs links that include
+ "index.html" in their names to work, you can enable this option. Then
+ each index.html file will be stored in S3 *twice*, under both names. This
+ will use more disk and bandwidth, and is not recommended unless you really
+ need it for some reason. These days, it's probably better to configure
+ your S3 bucket as a website.
Note that you should still set `destdir` in the setup file. The files that
are uploaded to Amazon S3 will still be written to the destdir, too.
Copy and rename detection is not done, so if you copy or rename a large file,
it will be re-uploaded, rather than copied.
+
+## deleting a bucket
+
+You can use "ikiwiki -setup my.setup --delete-bucket" to delete anything
+that's in the configured bucket, and remove the bucket.