Authentication Proxy For S3 Buckets

Amazon offers a very easy to implement static website hosting option for S3 buckets. Since it is a completely static option though, all files are exposed to the public Internet (no authentication option)

This is a node server that simple proxies requests made to it. It make a matching authenticated API requests to the S3 bucket and serves back the contents of the static file requested.

Install

Quick install (if you already have npm and such)

 $ git clone https://github.com/samkeen/s3-proxy-auth.git && cd s3-proxy-auth
 $ npm install
 $ cp ./config/aws.config.dist.json ./config/aws.config.json

Add your AWS Key and secret to ./config/aws.config.json

Install from scratch (Ubuntu)

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install git npm
$ git clone https://github.com/samkeen/s3-proxy-auth.git && cd s3-proxy-auth
$ npm install
# alias nodejs to node
$ sudo ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/bin/node
$ cp ./config/aws.config.dist.json ./config/aws.config.json
$ vi config/aws.config.json

Run

 ./bin/www

Then any request to localhost:3000 will be proxied to your AWS S3 bucket and return that content. This is all done with streaming, no files are stored locally on this proxy server.

                      { s3 bucket }/{ object path }
 http://localhost:3000/my-s3-bucket/job1/index.html

TODO

• Add ability to parse credentials out of ~/.aws/config
• Better logging
• Better .on('error' handler