Managing Websites with the AWS Management Console

The Amazon S3 console enables you to manage bucket properties. The bucket properties pane provides the following Website properties tab for you to manage your bucket's website configuration.

To configure your bucket as a website, you must select the Enabled check box and provide an index document name in the Index Document field. You can optionally provide an error document name in the Error Document field. This is the custom error document that you can provide with user-friendly information. If you don't provide this document, Amazon S3 returns predefined error documents when an error occurs. For more information, see Custom Error Document Support.

	Note
	To configure your bucket as a website, the name of your bucket must comply with both the Amazon S3 requirements for bucket names and the DNS requirements for host names. For more information about bucket names, see Bucket Restrictions and Limitations.

If you clear the Enabled check box, the bucket is no longer a website and cannot be accessed via the website endpoints (see Website Endpoints). However, the bucket is still accessible via the REST endpoint. In the preceding example, after you clear the Enabled check box, you will not be able to view http://examplebucket.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com in a browser. However, you can still work with the URL as an endpoint using the REST API or one of the AWS SDKs.