Re: Configuring radosgw to behave like Amazon S3

[Florian Haas <florian@hastexo.com>]

On 07/09/12 18:39, Yehuda Sadeh wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 6:00 AM, Florian Haas <florian@hastexo.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I find it kind of neat that you can use radosgw to convince S3 clients
>> that they are in fact talking to the "real" Amazon S3, with just a bit
>> of config and DNS trickery, but haven't seen this documented anywhere.
>> So I decided to add a little page to the Hints & Kinks section on our
>> website, in the hope that it's useful. If anyone wants to share
>> comments, feedback or corrections, please do so either here on the
>> list, or on the page directly (scroll down to "add new comment";
>> leaving comments requires you to log in in an effort to combat comment
>> spam).
>>
>> http://www.hastexo.com/resources/hints-and-kinks/configuring-radosgw-behave-amazon-s3
> 
> Note that for obvious reasons this method can't work when accessing
> the RESTful api via https. It is useful as a workaround for handling
> clients that are hard coded for amazon.

Point taken, I've added a paragraph saying that while technically
feasible, such HTTPS hackery shouldn't be attempted.

>> As a side note, I'm not 100% sure if the information listed in
>> http://ceph.com/docs/master/radosgw/s3/ with respect to S3 API
>> compatibility is entirely accurate. Specifically, it seems that the
>> "Bucket Website" feature *is* supported by way of "rgw dns name"
>> (unless I'm missing something, and Bucket Website refers to something
>> different). Thoughts on that would also be appreciated.
> 
> Yeah, you're missing something. Bucket website is a way to configure a
> bucket to behave like a static website by providing default landing
> page when accessing the bucket's root, and by providing default error
> pages. You can read all about it here:
> 
> http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/WebsiteHosting.html

Thanks.

Cheers,
Florian