X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/a50fb83394b11aa9d794fed7b471b27b66a553d3..ae1857b43cf55a393a507b8434f172cbdb29d5b0:/doc/plugins/amazon_s3.mdwn diff --git a/doc/plugins/amazon_s3.mdwn b/doc/plugins/amazon_s3.mdwn index caa0c0153..7fe60cb8d 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/amazon_s3.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/amazon_s3.mdwn @@ -1,12 +1,12 @@ -[[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 @@ -22,9 +22,10 @@ This plugin uses the following settings in the setup file: 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, @@ -33,7 +34,8 @@ This plugin uses the following settings in the setup file: "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. + 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.