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This tutorial describes how to configure a Cloud Storage bucket to host a static website for a domain you own. Static web pages can contain client-side technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. They cannot contain dynamic content such as server-side scripts like PHP.
This tutorial shows you how to serve content over HTTP. For a tutorial that uses HTTPS, see Hosting a static website.
For examples and tips on static web pages, including how to host static assets for a dynamic website, see the Static Website page.
Caution: This tutorial makes content available to the public internet. We recommend that you don't serve content that contains sensitive or private data from your Cloud Storage bucket. Objectives In this tutorial you will:CNAME
record.This tutorial uses the following billable component of Google Cloud:
See the Monitoring your storage charges tip for details on what charges may be incurred when hosting a static website, and see the Pricing page for details on Cloud Storage costs.
Before you beginIn the Google Cloud console, on the project selector page, select or create a Google Cloud project.
Note: If you don't plan to keep the resources that you create in this procedure, create a project instead of selecting an existing project. After you finish these steps, you can delete the project, removing all resources associated with the project.Verify that billing is enabled for your Google Cloud project.
In the Google Cloud console, on the project selector page, select or create a Google Cloud project.
Note: If you don't plan to keep the resources that you create in this procedure, create a project instead of selecting an existing project. After you finish these steps, you can delete the project, removing all resources associated with the project.Verify that billing is enabled for your Google Cloud project.
This tutorial uses the domain example.com
.
example.com
, and not a subdomain, such as www.example.com
.
Note: If you own the domain you are associating to a bucket, you might have already performed this step in the past. If you purchased your domain through Cloud Domains, verification is automatic.
To connect your domain to Cloud Storage, create a CNAME
record through your domain registration service. A CNAME
record is a type of DNS record. It directs traffic that requests a URL from your domain to the resources you want to serve, in this case objects in your Cloud Storage buckets. For www.example.com
, the CNAME
record might contain the following information:
NAME TYPE DATA www CNAME c.storage.googleapis.com.
For more information about CNAME
redirects, see URI for CNAME
aliasing.
To connect your domain to Cloud Storage:
Create a CNAME
record that points to c.storage.googleapis.com.
.
Your domain registration service should have a way for you to administer your domain, including adding a CNAME
record. For example, if you use Cloud DNS, instructions for adding resource records can be found on the Add, modify, and delete records page.
example.com
, so in most cases, you must create your CNAME
record on a subdomain, such as www.example.com
or myblog.example.com
. Some DNS providers offer a non-standard feature that allows a root domain to be aliased to another name without the use of CNAME
. Consult your DNS provider documentation to determine if such a feature is available.Create a bucket whose name matches the CNAME
you created for your domain.
For example, if you added a CNAME
record pointing from the www
subdomain of example.com
to c.storage.googleapis.com.
, then the Google Cloud CLI command to create a bucket with the name www.example.com
would look similar to the following:
gcloud storage buckets create gs://www.example.com --location=US
For complete instructions to creating buckets with different tools, see Create buckets.
Uploading your site's filesTo add to your bucket the files you want your website to serve:
ConsoleIn the list of buckets, click the name of the bucket that you created.
Click the Upload files button in the Objects tab.
In the file dialog, browse to the desired file and select it.
After the upload completes, you should see the file name along with file information displayed in the bucket.
Command lineUse the gcloud storage cp
command to copy files to your bucket. For example, to copy the file index.html
from its current location Desktop
:
gcloud storage cp Desktop/index.html gs://www.example.com
If successful, the response looks like the following example:
Completed files 1/1 | 164.3kiB/164.3kiBClient libraries C++
For more information, see the Cloud Storage C++ API reference documentation.
To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.
C#For more information, see the Cloud Storage C# API reference documentation.
To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.
GoFor more information, see the Cloud Storage Go API reference documentation.
To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.
JavaFor more information, see the Cloud Storage Java API reference documentation.
To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.
The following sample uploads an individual object:
The following sample uploads multiple objects concurrently:
The following sample uploads all objects with a common prefix concurrently:
Node.jsFor more information, see the Cloud Storage Node.js API reference documentation.
To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.
The following sample uploads an individual object:
The following sample uploads multiple objects concurrently:
The following sample uploads all objects with a common prefix concurrently:
PHPFor more information, see the Cloud Storage PHP API reference documentation.
To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.
PythonFor more information, see the Cloud Storage Python API reference documentation.
To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.
The following sample uploads an individual object:
The following sample uploads multiple objects concurrently:
The following sample uploads all objects with a common prefix concurrently:
RubyFor more information, see the Cloud Storage Ruby API reference documentation.
To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.
REST APIs Sharing your filesTo make all objects in a bucket readable to everyone on the public internet:
Caution: Before making your bucket publicly accessible, make sure that the files in your bucket do not contain sensitive or private information. ConsoleIn the list of buckets, click the name of the bucket that you want to make public.
Select the Permissions tab near the top of the page.
If the Public access pane reads Not public, click the button labeled Remove public access prevention, and click Confirm in the dialog that appears.
Click the add_box Grant access button.
The Add principals dialog box appears.
In the New principals field, enter allUsers
.
In the Select a role drop down, select the Cloud Storage sub-menu, and click the Storage Object Viewer option.
Click Save.
Click Allow public access.
Once shared publicly, a link icon appears for each object in the public access column. You can click this icon to get the URL for the object.
Command lineUse the buckets add-iam-policy-binding
command:
gcloud storage buckets add-iam-policy-binding gs://www.example.com --member=allUsers --role=roles/storage.objectViewerClient libraries C++
For more information, see the Cloud Storage C++ API reference documentation.
To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.
C#For more information, see the Cloud Storage C# API reference documentation.
To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.
GoFor more information, see the Cloud Storage Go API reference documentation.
To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.
JavaFor more information, see the Cloud Storage Java API reference documentation.
To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.
Node.jsFor more information, see the Cloud Storage Node.js API reference documentation.
To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.
PHPFor more information, see the Cloud Storage PHP API reference documentation.
To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.
PythonFor more information, see the Cloud Storage Python API reference documentation.
To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.
RubyFor more information, see the Cloud Storage Ruby API reference documentation.
To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.
REST APIs Note:roles/storage.objectViewer
includes permission to list the objects in the bucket.
If wanted, you can alternatively make portions of your bucket publicly accessible.
Visitors receive a http 403
response code when requesting the URL for a non-public or non-existent file. See the next section for information on how to add an error page that uses a http 404
response code.
You can assign an index page suffix, which is controlled by the MainPageSuffix
property and a custom error page, which is controlled by the NotFoundPage
property. Assigning either is optional, but without an index page, nothing is served when users access your top-level site, for example, http://www.example.com
. For more information, see Website configuration examples.
In the following sample, the MainPageSuffix
is set to index.html
and NotFoundPage
is set to 404.html
:
In the list of buckets, find the bucket you created.
Click the Bucket overflow menu (more_vert) associated with the bucket and select Edit website configuration.
In the website configuration dialog, specify the main page and error page.
Click Save.
Use the buckets update
command with the --web-main-page-suffix
and --web-error-page
flags:
gcloud storage buckets update gs://www.example.com --web-main-page-suffix=index.html --web-error-page=404.html
If successful, the command returns:
Updating gs://www.example.com/... Completed 1Note: Change or remove these settings with additional
buckets update
commands and view these settings with the buckets describe
command. Client libraries C++
For more information, see the Cloud Storage C++ API reference documentation.
To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.
C#For more information, see the Cloud Storage C# API reference documentation.
To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.
GoFor more information, see the Cloud Storage Go API reference documentation.
To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.
JavaFor more information, see the Cloud Storage Java API reference documentation.
To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.
Node.jsFor more information, see the Cloud Storage Node.js API reference documentation.
To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.
PHPFor more information, see the Cloud Storage PHP API reference documentation.
To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.
PythonFor more information, see the Cloud Storage Python API reference documentation.
To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.
RubyFor more information, see the Cloud Storage Ruby API reference documentation.
To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.
REST APIs Testing the website Note: Depending on your domain registration service, it may take hours or longer for yourCNAME
record to begin routing requests to your Cloud Storage bucket.
Verify that content is served from the bucket by requesting the domain name in a browser. You can do this with a path to an object or with just the domain name, if you set the MainPageSuffix
property.
For example, if you have an object named test.html
stored in a bucket named www.example.com
, check that it's accessible by going to www.example.com/test.html
in your browser.
After you finish the tutorial, you can clean up the resources that you created so that they stop using quota and incurring charges. The following sections describe how to delete or turn off these resources.
Deleting the projectThe easiest way to eliminate billing is to delete the project that you created for the tutorial.
To delete the project:
appspot.com
URL, delete selected resources inside the project instead of deleting the whole project.If you plan to explore multiple architectures, tutorials, or quickstarts, reusing projects can help you avoid exceeding project quota limits.
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