Cyberduck

Timestamp:

Dec 11, 2008 7:02:32 AM (12 years ago)

Author:

dkocher

Comment:

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help/en/howto/s3

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 === Buckets ===
 
-To create a new [http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonS3/2006-03-01/index.html?UsingBucket.html bucket] for your account, choose ''New Folder...'' from the File menu. You can choose the bucket location in the Preferences (either US or Europe). Note that Amazon has a different pricing scheme for the two locations.
+To create a new [http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonS3/2006-03-01/index.html?UsingBucket.html bucket] for your account, choose ''New Folder...'' from the File menu. You can choose the bucket location in the Preferences (either US or Europe). Note that Amazon has a different pricing scheme for the two locations. Because the bucket name must be globally unique the operation might fail if the name is already taken by someone else (E.g. don't assume any common name like ''media'' or ''images'' will be available.
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+Due to limitations by the design of the Amazon S3 file system, you cannot create folders anywhere else than the root. You can however upload folders and these are browsable like on a regular remote server.
 
 === Hidden Options ===
 
+ * Create a publicly available auto-expiring signed URL
+Set the property {{{s3.url.public}}} to {{{true}}} and choose the lifetime of the URL using {{{s3.url.expire.seconds}}}.
 
+{{{
+defaults write ch.sudo.cyberduck s3.url.public true
+}}}
 
+Using Edit → Copy URL for a given file will then create a signed URL.
 
+ * Multiple CNAMEs for CloudFront distribution
+Using File → Info → Distribution you can enter multiple CNAMEs for your bucket distribution. These must be space delimited.