Given the popularity of hosting static sites from AWS S3 buckets it would be great to be able to do that from Cloud9 too.
Is there any way I can set up an FTP-based workspace that uses an S3 bucket as the source?
Transmit and other FTP apps have the ability to work directly with an S3 bucket. I did try setting up an FTP workspace in Cloud9 using the following:
Host: s3.amazonaws.com
Username: My-Access-Key
Password: My-Secret-Key
I know it was a long-shot and I have since read confirmation that Amazon doesn't allow simple FTP access to buckets like that.
Any ideas if this is possible?
FTP workspaces on Cloud9 are actually being phased out, so I'd recommend using the mounting feature described in this blog post to mount an FTP source: https://c9.io/site/blog/2014/12/ftp-sftp-mounting-beta
Unfortunately, S3 doesn't support the FTP protocol, so this would have to be a new feature. Luckily we're opening up our SDK to be able to implement features like this. If you're interested in contributing please email us via https://support.c9.io