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## S3-Static-Sites.md

      
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                Use S3 and CloudFront to host Static Single Page Apps (SPAs) with HTTPs and www-redirects. Also covers deployments.
              
          
    S3 Static Sites

⚠ This post is fairly old. I don't keep it up to date. Be sure to see comments where some people have posted updates
What this will cover

Host a static website at S3
Redirect www.website.com to website.com
Website can be an SPA (requiring all requests to return index.html)
Free AWS SSL certs
Deployment with CDN invalidation


## Update remote repo
// Reference: http://www.blackdogfoundry.com/blog/moving-repository-from-bitbucket-to-github/
// See also: http://www.paulund.co.uk/change-url-of-git-repository

$ cd $HOME/Code/repo-directory
$ git remote rename origin bitbucket
$ git remote add origin https://github.com/mandiwise/awesome-new-repo.git
$ git push origin master

$ git remote rm bitbucket
	// Reference: http://www.blackdogfoundry.com/blog/moving-repository-from-bitbucket-to-github/
	// See also: http://www.paulund.co.uk/change-url-of-git-repository

	$ cd $HOME/Code/repo-directory
	$ git remote rename origin bitbucket
	$ git remote add origin https://github.com/mandiwise/awesome-new-repo.git
	$ git push origin master

	$ git remote rm bitbucket