Hey lazy web: I need your help. A little while ago I wrote about using Amazon S3 as a CDN, and it has been working great so far. The one issue has been plaguing me is user permissions.
When you upload something to S3, the default settings are read and write by owner only. In order to make the image I upload there viewable on my site, I have to manually change the “read” setting to “world.”
I was using Panic’s Transmit to do the uploading, and recently started testing S3Hub, but neither seem to let me set a preference to make all files within a certain bucket (or ideally within a certain directory) world readable by default.
Does anyone out there use S3 like I do? Have you found a workaround? The S3Hub documentation says that it can do this, but I think the literature is out of sync with the current version. It describes steps and menu options that no longer exist.
HELP!
I use smestorage.com as my entrypoint to amazon S3 - I get a unique url for any S3 file if I want to access it or use it on a blog etc.
If you share a bucket to the All Users group any files you upload will be given world readable permissions.
Thanks John and Gabe! I don’t think I’ll be using smestorage.com (mostly because I’m a design snob), but I’m definitely going to try the “All Users” share and see if that does the trick.