Website hosted on S3 just downloads a blank file?

Question

I have an extremely simple website, literally just an HTML file with some text in it. I configured my bucket for hosting and set the homepage to index.html. I set the permissions per the AWS tutorial here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/website-hosting-custom-domain-walkthrough.html

For some reason, when I hit the website endpoint, Chrome is prompted to save a file called "download". If I save the file and open it, it is just blank, zero bytes. Why is my index.html file not served up?

UPDATE: I fixed the empty file issue, but it still wants to download my page instead of open it in the browser...

FIXED: The content-type was set incorrectly. When uploading the file, I had to explicitly the set the content type property to text/html or text/css.

Answer 1

You need to set the Metadata properly - content-type as text/html for your html pages. Once this is through the browser would start to render the pages in the browser rather than downloading them.