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

Fastidious 11 years ago |

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

kyledrake 11 years ago | |

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.

johnchristopher 11 years ago | |

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

Fastidious 11 years ago | | |

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

johnchristopher 11 years ago | | |

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.

zuccs 11 years ago |

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.

abeiz 11 years ago | |

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?

zuccs 11 years ago | | |

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?

nterkay 10 years ago | | |

same issue. did you ever get this to resolve?

tbrooks 11 years ago |

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.

provost 11 years ago |

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

abeiz 11 years ago | |

The editor can run locally or in S3.

johnchristopher 11 years ago |

Is there some kind of demo somewhere ?

abeiz 11 years ago | |

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

jgmmo 11 years ago |

looks like jekyll, or jinja

meesterdude 11 years ago |

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?

gtCameron 11 years ago | |

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.

w-ll 11 years ago | | |

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.

maineldc 11 years ago | | |

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.