The S3 Static Website Generator is a script to set up hosting a secure and scalable website on Amazon's AWS S3.
Websites are needed for just about everything these days. The problem is hosting a simple, secure, and scalable website is not as cheap and easy as it should be.
Amazon's AWS S3 service enables you to host a website that's cheap and scales well, but configuring this yourself is still not that simple. You still need to be familiar with AWS and know about provisioning SSL certificates and DNS hosting, and even if you are familiar, you still have to manually do it each time you want to host a new website.
The S3 Static Website Generator was made to make launching a secure and scalable website on S3 as simple as possible. Running the script will handle everything from setting up your DNS, providing your site a SSL certificate, and creating a S3 bucket for your website's code.
First, you'll need an AWS account. If you don't already have one, you can sign up for one here.
This script also assumes you have created an IAM user with admin access permissions (here's how to do this) and have stored that user's credentials locally under the ~/.aws directory or have set those credentials as environment variables (read more here).
Second, you'll have to have Ruby 2.0 or higher installed on your machine (how to install Ruby).
Once you have AWS and Ruby set up, all you have to do is clone this repository:
git clone git@github.com:acmeyer/s3-static-site-generator.git
go into the directory:
cd s3-static-site-generator
install the AWS SDK (if you don't already have it installed):
gem install aws-sdk
and run the script (replace yourdomain.com below with your domain name):
ruby create_site.rb yourdomain.com
That's it!
The script will run and let you know it's progress. It can take up to 20 minutes to complete. Go grab yourself a much deserved coffee!
When it's finished, it will print the url of your site, the S3 bucket to upload your website code to, and the name servers to point your DNS to. You'll have to point your DNS name servers to these name servers in order to see your site when accessing it's url. This also may take some time before you can access your site.
- Check out the latest master to make sure the feature hasn't been implemented or the bug hasn't been fixed yet
- Check out the issue tracker to make sure someone already hasn't requested it and/or contributed it
- Fork the project
- Start a feature/bugfix branch
- Commit and push until you are happy with your contribution
- Add script to remove site
- Handle S3 bucket names not available
- Handle non-root domain name
- Handle script errors
- Handle multiple runs on same domain name
- Add automatic uploading of website code
Released under the MIT License. See http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT for more information.
If you need help with this script send me an email. I'll try my best to help you out.