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Uploading to S3
Dec 10, 2018 AWS Site
In my last post, I looked at how I configured and started using Wyam to build my new site. After finishing up that post and getting things working locally, I then figured out how to get things served from AWS.
I created a new S3 bucket, with the same name as my domain (
james.pawsforthorpe.co.uk), and configured the properties on it to include static website hosting. This gives it an AWS domain - in my case,http://james.pawsforthorpe.co.uk.s3-website.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/. A quick CNAME entry in my DNS settings later, and I was up and running. At this point, I was still manually uploading files through the AWS console website - this now needed to change.Being a .NET house, we use the AWS Powershell Tools at work to do some programmatic things - I didn't see any reason to do any different here. First job was to create an IAM user to allow programmatic access. Best practices are to limit permission to exactly what's needed.
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Moving to Wyam
Dec 04, 2018 Site Wyam
I'm in the process of rejigging out my web portfolio (website, email servers etc), and since my day job involves using AWS, I figured now was a good time to begin moving there. I'm also about to embark on some electronics projects, and I wanted to have somewhere to write about what I'm doing. I really don't use my personal site much, so I figured I wanted something simple and static(ish) that I could serve from S3, perhaps with a lambda function or two at some point.
Having seen what other people are doing with the likes of Jekyll, I thought I'd go for a statically generated site too. Being a .NET developer, I wondered what there was in the way of site generator engines that ran on top of .NET Core. A quick search found Wyam, and a Blog post from Scott Hanselman exploring it a little.
That was good enough for me.
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