Question

I’m running Coldfusion8 and am using the Amazon S3 Rest Wrapper CFC trying to set it up with a EU bucket.

I can use the cfc to set up buckets in the US, but whenever I’m changing to the EU setting, it does not work.

Here is the function being used:

<cffunction name="putBucket" access="public" output="false" returntype="boolean" description="Creates a bucket.">
    <cfargument name="bucketName" type="string" required="true">
    <cfargument name="acl" type="string" required="false" default="public-read">
    <cfargument name="storageLocation" type="string" required="false" default="">

    <cfset var strXML = "">
    <cfset var dateTimeString = GetHTTPTimeString(Now())>
    <cfset var destination = "http://s3.amazonaws.com/">

    <!--- Create a canonical string to send based on operation requested ---> 
    <cfset var cs = "PUT\n\ntext/html\n#dateTimeString#\nx-amz-acl:#arguments.acl#\n/#arguments.bucketName#">

    <cfset var signature = createSignature(cs)>
    <!--- added switch to EU --->
    <cfif arguments.storageLocation EQ "EU">
        <cfset destination = "http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/">
    </cfif>

    <!--- Create a proper signature --->
    <cfif compare(arguments.storageLocation,'')>
        <cfsavecontent variable="strXML">
            <CreateBucketConfiguration xmlns="http://s3.amazonaws.com/doc/2006-03-01/"><LocationConstraint>#arguments.storageLocation#</LocationConstraint></CreateBucketConfiguration>
        </cfsavecontent>
    <cfelse>
        <cfset strXML = "">
    </cfif>

    <!--- put the bucket via REST --->
    <cfhttp method="PUT" url="#destination##arguments.bucketName#" charset="utf-8">
        <cfhttpparam type="header" name="Content-Type" value="text/html">
        <cfhttpparam type="header" name="Date" value="#dateTimeString#">
        <cfhttpparam type="header" name="x-amz-acl" value="#arguments.acl#">
        <cfhttpparam type="header" name="Authorization" value="AWS #variables.accessKeyId#:#signature#">
        <cfhttpparam type="body" value="#trim(strXML)#">
    </cfhttp>

    <cfreturn true>
</cffunction>

I have added the switch to the EU region URL, but this doesn’t work either.

Any idea what I need to do in order to create a bucket in the EU?

EDIT:
I have fixed the regional values. It still doesn’t work tough, because if I pass a regional value other than "", this line:

 <cfif compare(arguments.storageLocation,'')>
    <cfsavecontent variable="strXML">
       <CreateBucketConfiguration xmlns="http://s3.amazonaws.com/doc/2006-03-01/"><LocationConstraint>#arguments.storageLocation#</LocationConstraint></CreateBucketConfiguration>
     </cfsavecontent>
 <cfelse>
     <cfset strXML = "">
 </cfif>

will produce a strXML like so:

 <CreateBucketConfiguration xmlns="http://s3.amazonaws.com/doc/2006-03-01/"><LocationConstraint>#arguments.storageLocation#</LocationConstraint></CreateBucketConfiguration> 

which creates the bad request error again

Answer 1

You need to use the proper values for the storage location. From the API documents, I believe those values are:

The preferred geographical location for the bucket. [Allowed values: AmazonS3::REGION_US_E1, AmazonS3::REGION_US_W1, AmazonS3::REGION_EU_W1, AmazonS3::REGION_APAC_SE1, AmazonS3::REGION_APAC_NE1]