Trying to set up Amazon's S3 bucket: 403 Forbidden error & setting permissions

Question

I\'m following Hartl\'s railstutorial.org and have arrived at 11.4.4: Image upload in production. What I\'ve done:

• Signed up for Amazon Web Services
• I

Answer 1

You may be missing a step which is to set your IAM policy if using an IAM user to configure your bucket.

Go to IAM console, select your user, go to the permissions tab, click the attach policy button and add administrator access.

After that the error should go away and you can upload files with no problem ;)