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title = "Exposing buckets as websites"
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# Exposing buckets as websites
You can expose your bucket as a website with this simple command:
```bash
garage bucket website --allow my-website
```
Now it will be **publicly** exposed on the web endpoint (by default listening on port 3902).
Our website serving logic is as follow:
- Supports only static websites (no support for PHP or other languages)
- Does not support directory listing
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- The index is defined in your `garage.toml` . ([ref](/documentation/reference-manual/configuration/#garage-configuration-file-format-reference))
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Now we need to infer the URL of your website through your bucket name.
Let assume:
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- we set `root_domain = ".web.example.com"` in `garage.toml` ([ref](/documentation/reference-manual/configuration/#garage-configuration-file-format-reference))
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- our bucket name is `garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr` .
Our bucket will be served if the Host field matches one of these 2 values (the port is ignored):
- `garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr.web.example.com` : you can dedicate a subdomain to your users (here `web.example.com` ).
- `garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr` : your users can bring their own domain name, they just need to point them to your Garage cluster.
You can try this logic locally, without configuring any DNS, thanks to `curl` :
```bash
# prepare your test
echo hello world > /tmp/index.html
mc cp /tmp/index.html garage/garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr
curl -H 'Host: garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr' http://localhost:3902
# should print "hello world"
curl -H 'Host: garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr.web.example.com' http://localhost:3902
# should also print "hello world"
```
Now that you understand how website logic works on Garage, you can:
- make the website endpoint listens on port 80 (instead of 3902)
- use iptables to redirect the port 80 to the port 3902:
`iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -dport 80 -j REDIRECT -to-port 3902`
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- or configure a [reverse proxy ](/documentation/cookbook/reverse-proxy/ ) in front of Garage to add TLS (HTTPS), CORS support, etc.
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You can also take a look at [Website Integration ](/documentation/connect/websites/ ) to see how you can add Garage to your workflow.