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DodgerCMS – A static markdown CMS built on top of Amazon S3

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Very nice! I wonder what took so long for something like this. With DodgerCMS anyone can have a website for pennies per month. Thanks!

Or free, if it was ported to Neocities: https://neocities.org

The S3 stuff looks pretty integrated with the main code though, might be tough to abstract it out.

Nonetheless, this is a great app. I've been pondering making something like this for a while.

I disagree. `Anyone' has it much easier with Google sites.

Not as good looking though. But it is true it might be easier.

To clarify things: I am not supporting Google sites or suggesting it should be used instead of DodgerCMS. I just think the barrier to entry is much lower with Google sites.

Can anyone get this working?

I'm just getting an 'Access Denied. Please make sure the user attached to the access key has access to [bucket]' error when running local.html from local or the bucket.

This means the IAM user you created does not have the correct permissions to access the buckets you listed on the login page. This could be because of a typo somewhere in the policies, or maybe you entered the names of the buckets incorrectly on the form?

Thanks for the reply - I use static sites on S3 a lot, so pretty confident of the setup. I've also replaced the installation ones with my usual policies (slightly different) and getting the same error. Anything else I can try?

same issue. did you ever get this to resolve?

I've thought about doing something like this for a while, I'm so glad to see this exist.

Kudos to you for open-sourcing. You also write great code that's well-commented.

This looks great, and I was just starting to look into something like this...Does the editor/web-UI run locally, or in AWS?

The editor can run locally or in S3.

Is there some kind of demo somewhere ?

The documentation is the demo: http://dodgercms.com

looks like jekyll, or jinja

I hate to be that guy, but why do i have to use amazon? Why can't i compile this locally and push it up to github and just host in there, if its a static site?

You don't have to use Amazon, you can use one of the other 800 non-amazon specific static site generators that exist instead of this one. The fact that a tool doesn't accomplish the particular workflow that you would like doesn't mean it shouldn't exist.

I dont think meesterdude was implying DodgerCMS shouldn't exist. And I think the question of if it could support GH Pages is not a bad one, in fact I would rather host for free on GH than Amazon as well.

But the whole point is that by reducing the number of choices, that it becomes simpler to start. It's even in the docs:

Q: Why did you make this? A: I wanted to see if it was feasible to use S3 as a CMS, and I like working on projects like this for fun.

So the author wasn't trying to create a static site CMS (there are LOTS of those already), but something different and maybe simpler.

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