[Question/feature request] Run static website without having to put each file after bucket creation

[scooper91]

I'm trying to get a static site working using the s3rver CLI. Ideally, I want to point s3rver to a folder containing the source and the website configuration, and it to serve the documents correctly.

It's currently 404ing trying to retrieve index.html because the html files are not being added into the actual bucket.

Current code:

s3rver -d /website -a 0.0.0.0 --configure-bucket website.local /website/website-configuration.xml

Where /website contains the html files.

Output of lsing the directories (for reference, this is running in Docker):

/website # ls -la
total 24
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root          4096 Apr 22 14:19 .
drwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          4096 Apr 22 14:19 ..
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            85 Apr 22 14:19 error.html
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            78 Apr 22 14:19 index.html
-rw-r--r--    1 1001     1001           243 Apr 22 13:58 website-configuration.xml
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root          4096 Apr 22 14:19 website.local
/website # ls -la website.local/
total 12
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root          4096 Apr 22 14:19 .
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root          4096 Apr 22 14:19 ..
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root           227 Apr 22 14:19 ._S3rver_website.xml

Is it possible to do this? Looking at the tests, you seem to have to create the bucket first, and then add the html files like you would add to a normal bucket.

Thanks!

[kherock]

Hi @scooper91! This question actually does come up a lot, I'm currently putting together some "getting started" guides that will include examples for scenarios like this.

Your best bet is to use the AWS CLI to copy your files in with aws --endpoint-url http://localhost:4568 s3 sync. You can use a simple file watcher setup to do this pretty efficiently.