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Patrick Lightbody
Patrick Lightbody

Reputation: 4534

Host static Wordpress blog on S3?

I have an old WordPress blog that I no longer use but want to keep the pages to support old incoming links. Right now I pay $20/mo for a t1.micro instance on EC2 just to run the stupid thing. I decided to use the Really Static plugin to extract the entire site in to static content with the goal to host it on S3's ability to host root domain content.

The good news is that the static export worked great. The bad news is that my URLs never used "clean URLs" and so the pages were stuff like http://example.com/blog/?p=123. The way the plugin works is that it exports a directory such as p=123 and then puts an index.html file in it.

My question is: does anyone have a bright idea on how (or if) I can host a URL like /blog/?p=123 and serve it from S3 using the static content I have? Even when I create a directory in S3 of ?p=123 I can only get /blog/%3Fp%3D123/index.html to serve while /blog/?p=123/index.html shows an access denied error.

Thanks!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2014

Answers (1)

jwilkins
jwilkins

Reputation: 401

http://www.slowping.com/index.html%3Fp=76.html discusses converting a wordpress blog to s3.

As you can see from the url, he's using the p= style of url. He seems to be using the directions from http://mossiso.com/2007/09/10/converting-wordpress-to-static-html.html though, so it may be that you just need to use a different converter.

Followup: Here's an article that discusses converting a custom themed wordpress install to octopress and it discusses some edge cases that may be relevant.

http://mrdanadams.com/2012/migrating-wordpress-custom-theme-octopress-jekyll/#.UUJxNltxuGo

Upvotes: 1

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