Question

I have set up an S3 bucket to host static files.

When using the website endpoint (http://.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/): it forces me to set an index file. When the file isn’t found, it throws an error instead of listing directory contents.

When using the s3 endpoint (.s3.amazonaws.com): I get an XML listing of the files, but I need an HTML listing that users can click the link to the file.

I have tried setting the permissions of all files and the bucket itself to “List” for “Everyone” in the AWS Console, but still no luck.

I have also tried some of the javascript alternatives, but they either don’t work under the website url (that redirects to the index file) or just don’t work at all. As a last resort, a collapsible javascript listing would be better than nothing, but I haven’t found a good one.

Is this possible? If so, do I need to change permissions, ACL or something else?

Answer 1

I found s3browser, which allowed me to set up a directory on the main web site that allowed browsing of the s3 bucket. It worked very well and was very easy to set up.