X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/d1154b292592240c0c2ee67c54cdc3d2664c1ef8..63fa0ef5ba9a2e367791dd19b9aeb7c98d70ac85:/doc/plugins/amazon_s3.mdwn diff --git a/doc/plugins/amazon_s3.mdwn b/doc/plugins/amazon_s3.mdwn index 855569b42..52c05f9ae 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 @@ -22,11 +22,20 @@ 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, + "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. @@ -35,13 +44,15 @@ Likewise, you will probably want to set the `url` in the setup file. The url can use the `foo.s3.amazonaws.com` domain name, or another domain name that is a CNAME for it. +The `hardlink` config file setting is not compatible with this plugin. + ## data transfer notes -If you run 'ikiwiki -setup my.setup' to force a rebuild of your wiki, the +If you run 'ikiwiki --setup my.setup' to force a rebuild of your wiki, the entire thing will be re-uploaded to Amazon S3. This will take time, and cost you money, so it should be avoided as much as possible. -If you run 'ikiwiki -setup my.setup -refresh', ikiwiki will only upload the +If you run 'ikiwiki --setup my.setup --refresh', ikiwiki will only upload the modified pages that it refreshes. Faster and cheaper. Still, if you have very large pages (for example, a page that inlines hundreds of other pages .. or is just very large), the complete page contents will be re-uploaded @@ -50,3 +61,8 @@ type uploads. 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.