s3sup 0.2.1

Static site uploader for Amazon S3

s3sup - static site uploader for Amazon S3

s3sup may be better than other S3 syncing solutions (e.g. s3sync) if you host a static site on S3. Main features include:

• MIME type detection, with Content-Type set correctly.
• Setting important HTTP headers (e.g. Cache-Control and Content-Disposition) on groups of files or individually.
• Fast and efficient synchronisation to S3 through maintaining a catalogue of content already on S3.

s3sup can be installed using pip. Please note s3sup supports Python 3 only:

pip3 install s3sup

Demo showing a new site being uploaded to S3:

Getting started

1) Add s3sup.toml file to your local static site root

Inside you local static site directory, run:

s3sup init

Then edit the skeleton s3sup configuration file created at ./s3sup.toml.

2) Configure AWS credentials

AWS credentials can be configured using any method that the underlying boto3 library supports. For most users, this will mean creating a credentials file at ~/.aws/credentials following this template:

[default]
aws_access_key_id=foo
aws_secret_access_key=bar

Or alternatively credentials can be provided as environment variables AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY.

3) Run s3sup

Check what changes s3sup thinks needs to be made to S3:

s3sup status

Then upload changes:

s3sup upload

Configuration file

s3sup expects an s3sup.toml configuration file within the root directory of your static site. Two sections need to be configured in s3sup.toml:

[aws] section

An [aws] section, telling s3sup where to find your S3 bucket:

[aws]
region_name = ''  # E.g. 'eu-west-1'
s3_bucket_name = '' # E.g. 'mys3websitebucketname'
s3_project_root = ''  # Root location for project within S3, e.g. 'staging/'

[[path_specific]] section

One or more [[path_specific]] sections. Each [[path_specific]] section must contain a path for which the following directives in that section apply to. The path can be the relative path to a file within the local directory, or a regular expression matching multiple paths.

If multiple [[path_specific]] entries match the same path, directives are combined from all matching [[path_specific]] entries, with the last matching [[path_specific]] directive entry winning for equivalent directive keys.

Along with path, the following directives can be set:

• ACL: One of: private, public-read, authenticated-read. Default 'public-read'.
• StorageClass: For an S3 website, usually either 'STANDARD' or 'REDUCED_REDUNDANCY'. Default 'STANDARD'.
• WebsiteRedirectLocation: Instruct S3 to respond with a redirect to this URL, rather than serving the file.
• Cache-Control: Set HTTP header value.
• Content-Disposition: Set HTTP header value.
• Content-Type: Set HTTP header value. Only override this if absolutely necessary, s3sup MIME type detection normally covers this.
• charset: Manually specify the character encoding of the file, which is appended to Content-Type.
• Content-Encoding: Set HTTP header value. Only override this if absolutely necessary, s3sup encoding detection normally covers this.

You can use s3sup inspect <filename> at any time to see the attributes that s3sup has calculated from your configuration settings:

$ s3sup inspect index.html
************************************************************
* PROJECT INFORMATION
************************************************************
  - Local project dir: . (current dir)
  - AWS region: eu-west-1
  - S3 bucket: s3://www.example.com/test

File: index.html
****************
  - Local path: /home/awooldrige/www.example.com/index.html
  - S3 path: s3://www.example.com/test/index.html
  - Attributes:
    - ACL: public-read
    - Cache-Control: private; max-age=300
    - Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
  - content hash: e1086538d9d7f9e458c0890b17e768f7ace099b9df922de65fb0009865784284
  - Attributes hash: f5a7cc18a936c3a406d958ea1d64dd8e760bf3d9cabb830810089f0a44fe8ab6

Example configuration file

The following example configuration:

• Sets all files with a cache lifetime of two minutes by default.
• Sets a longer cache lifetime on PDFs and a response header to trigger the browser to download the file rather than display it.

Example s3sup.toml:

[aws]
region_name = 'eu-west-1'
s3_bucket_name = 'mys3websitebucket'


[[path_specific]]
path = '^.*$'
Cache-Control = 'max-age=120'

[[path_specific]]
path= '^/assets/download/[0-9]+.pdf$'
Content-Disposition = 'attachment'
Cache-Control = 'max-age=360'