Bucket and Host Name
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-There are two different modes of accessing buckets. The first method identifies
-the bucket as the top-level directory in the URI::
+There are two different modes of accessing buckets: path-style and virtual-hosted-style.
+Path-style requests identify the bucket as the top-level directory of the request's path::
GET /mybucket HTTP/1.1
Host: cname.domain.com
-Most S3 clients nowadays rely on vhost-style access. The desired bucket is
-indicated by a DNS FQDN. For example::
+Most S3 clients default to virtual-hosted-style access, where the bucket name is instead
+indicated as part of the fully-qualified domain name::
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: mybucket.cname.domain.com
-The second method is deprecated by AWS. See the `Amazon S3 Path Deprecation
+Path-style access is deprecated by AWS. See the `Amazon S3 Path Deprecation
Plan`_ for more information.
To configure virtual hosted buckets, you can either set ``rgw_dns_name =