Connect to Amazon S3 from Hosting

Question

Ok, I've been looking for Google for some time now, and I can't find a good tutorial on how to connect to an Amazon S3 account from my hosting server. If someone knows a good step-by-step tutorial, write url.

Here is a bit more information on what I'm trying to accomplish. im using Vidiscript, which is a YouTube clone. I want to save on disk and bandwidth by uploading all the videos to an Amazon S3 account, and I also needed to load a lot, since vidiscript does not offer a free way to upload more than one video at a time. I wanted to create a cron job that checks for new downloads and adds information to the database. but I still have to figure out a way to create preview thumbnails for the video, so I may have to upload to the hosting, then create thumbnails, then upload to Amazon S3 and then delete the files from the hosting.

But in any case, I need to connect to my Amazon S3 account from the hosting server.

I will broadcast all the videos using the flowplayer pseudo-plexing plugin.

Any alternative solutions to save bandwidth and bulk load will also be appreciated.

Answer 1

You can map the AWS S3 directory to the local directory using FUSE . There are several projects for this.

• http://sourceforge.net/projects/s3fuse/
• http://code.google.com/p/s3fs/

Answer 2

Vidiscript seems to be PHP based, so I would go with php-aws

Answer 3

" , vidiscript . cron, "

Here are beta free bulk downloads.

http://dev.vidiscript.co.uk/VidiScriptOriginalNew/

username: admin password: admin

click on the download, note that the download form consists of two parts.

you can configure the cron job for this file http://youServer/VidiscriptFolder/process.php

you can download the updated version of vidiscript from vidiscript.co.uk