MSP360 Explorer for Amazon S3 provides full support for the features of Amazon S3 that allow customers to host their entire website on Amazon S3.
AWS customers commonly serve image and video content out of S3, but they typically do not host their HTML content out of S3. The biggest issue was that when someone hosted a website out of their S3 bucket, and a user accessed the root of the website (i.e. www.example.com), the default S3 bucket behavior is to list the contents of the bucket. Customers who host websites want to return a root document (i.e.www.example.com/index.html).
MSP360 Explorer allows customers to configure their bucket to support returning an index document both at the root directory as well as subdirectories within their bucket (i.e.www.example.com/directory). It also includes support for HTML errors and a custom error document.
To configure your bucket with Root and Custom Error documents, right-click the bucket and select Website from the context menu.
Then specify the names of the files. Make sure they exist in the bucket:
To utilize these features, customers will need to configure their bucket and then use a new set of S3 Website endpoints for referencing their content. For example, bucket.s3-website-us-west-1.
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