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GetBucketWebsite

Returns the website configuration for a bucket. To host website on Amazon S3, you can configure a bucket as website by adding a website configuration. For more information about hosting websites, see Hosting Websites on Amazon S3.

This GET action requires the S3:GetBucketWebsite permission. By default, only the bucket owner can read the bucket website configuration. However, bucket owners can allow other users to read the website configuration by writing a bucket policy granting them the S3:GetBucketWebsite permission.

The following operations are related to GetBucketWebsite:

Request Syntax


GET /?website HTTP/1.1
Host: Bucket.s3.amazonaws.com
x-amz-expected-bucket-owner: ExpectedBucketOwner

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

Bucket

The bucket name for which to get the website configuration.

Required: Yes

x-amz-expected-bucket-owner

The account ID of the expected bucket owner. If the bucket is owned by a different account, the request fails with the HTTP status code 403 Forbidden (access denied).

Request Body

The request does not have a request body.

Response Syntax


HTTP/1.1 200
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<WebsiteConfiguration>
   <RedirectAllRequestsTo>
      <HostName>string</HostName>
      <Protocol>string</Protocol>
   </RedirectAllRequestsTo>
   <IndexDocument>
      <Suffix>string</Suffix>
   </IndexDocument>
   <ErrorDocument>
      <Key>string</Key>
   </ErrorDocument>
   <RoutingRules>
      <RoutingRule>
         <Condition>
            <HttpErrorCodeReturnedEquals>string</HttpErrorCodeReturnedEquals>
            <KeyPrefixEquals>string</KeyPrefixEquals>
         </Condition>
         <Redirect>
            <HostName>string</HostName>
            <HttpRedirectCode>string</HttpRedirectCode>
            <Protocol>string</Protocol>
            <ReplaceKeyPrefixWith>string</ReplaceKeyPrefixWith>
            <ReplaceKeyWith>string</ReplaceKeyWith>
         </Redirect>
      </RoutingRule>
   </RoutingRules>
</WebsiteConfiguration>

Response Elements

If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in XML format by the service.

WebsiteConfiguration

Root level tag for the WebsiteConfiguration parameters.

Required: Yes

ErrorDocument

The object key name of the website error document to use for 4XX class errors.

Type: ErrorDocument data type

IndexDocument

The name of the index document for the website (for example index.html).

Type: IndexDocument data type

RedirectAllRequestsTo

Specifies the redirect behavior of all requests to a website endpoint of an Amazon S3 bucket.

Type: RedirectAllRequestsTo data type

RoutingRules

Rules that define when a redirect is applied and the redirect behavior.

Type: Array of RoutingRule data types

Examples

Sample Request

This request retrieves website configuration on the specified bucket.



            GET ?website HTTP/1.1
            Host: example-bucket.s3.<Region>.amazonaws.com
            Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:49:20 GMT
            Authorization: AWS AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE:n0Nhek72Ufg/u7Sm5C1dqRLs8XX=

Sample Response

This example illustrates one usage of GetBucketWebsite.



         HTTP/1.1 200 OK
         x-amz-id-2: YgIPIfBiKa2bj0KMgUAdQkf3ShJTOOpXUueF6QKo
         x-amz-request-id: 3848CD259D811111
         Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:49:26 GMT
         Content-Length: 240
         Content-Type: application/xml
         Transfer-Encoding: chunked
         Server: AmazonS3

         <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
         <WebsiteConfiguration xmlns="http://s3.amazonaws.com/doc/2006-03-01/">
           <IndexDocument>
             <Suffix>index.html</Suffix>
           </IndexDocument>
          <ErrorDocument>
            <Key>404.html</Key>
          </ErrorDocument>
         </WebsiteConfiguration>