Host Your Pano2VR Virtual Tour for Free: A Comprehensive Guide

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Pano2VR is a fantastic tool for crafting stunning 360-degree virtual tours. However, sharing your creation with the world can be expensive and tricky. Enter the power of free virtual tour hosting with AWS S3 cloud storage and Panoee S3 hosting service. AWS S3 is your generous cloud storage buddy, offering a free tier for beginners. Panoee S3 hosting service is your virtual tour valet, connecting your AWS S3 bucket to the web and effortlessly serving your virtual tour files. Follow along and let your virtual tours roam free without emptying your wallet!

Step 1: Export the Pano2VR virtual tour

Prior to web hosting, the virtual tour must be exported from Pano2VR, ensuring its readiness for online dissemination.

Host Your Pano2VR Virtual Tour for Free — Export your Pano2Vr virtual tour for Web

Step 2: Create your AWS Credential

Create your AWS Account

CleanShot 2023 11 17 at 23.06.25%402x scaled — Click button “Create an AWS Account”

CleanShot 2023 11 17 at 23.07.37%402x scaled — Follow AWS guide to create new account with your email address.

After signing up, please login AWS console with your account.

Setup AWS S3

CleanShot 2023 11 17 at 23.10.27%402x scaled — In AWS Console, search for service “S3”

CleanShot 2023 11 17 at 23.11.27%402x scaled — Click button “Create bucket” to create your very first Bucket – Bucket is the Storage where you create & manage folders. Each folder can be used to host one Virtual Tours.

Create S3 bucket S3 Global create bucket scaled — Following all above steps to create & intial setup your bucket. Please notice that your bucket needs to be set “public” & allow enough permission so we can manage it remotely & viewers can access files in your project to view the Virtual Tours.

CleanShot 2023 11 17 at 23.20.30%402x scaled — After create new bucket, you will be redirect back to Bucket listing page. Please notice that your bucket should display like above.

CleanShot 2023 11 17 at 23.23.37%402x scaled — Click the Bucket to go inside, switch to tab “Properties” and click button “Edit” in panel “Static website hosting”. This options allows files in bucket can be served under specific URLs so viewers can view your Virtual Tours via file “index.html”.

Edit static website hosting S3 bucket mypanoeesample S3 Globa — Follow steps above to setup “Static Website Hosting” options.

CleanShot 2023 11 17 at 23.24.54%402x scaled — After config, you will see above information in panel “Static website Hosting”

mypanoeesample S3 bucket S3 Global scaled — Follow steps to configure Bucket Policy & CORS rule in tab “Permission”. For each section, you need to click button “Edit” to start editing. Please copy below code and paste into corresponding area.

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Principal": "*",
            "Action": [
                "s3:DeleteObject",
                "s3:GetObject",
                "s3:ListBucket",
                "s3:PutObject"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "arn:aws:s3:::mypanoeesample/*",
                "arn:aws:s3:::mypanoeesample"
            ]
        }
    ]
}

For bucket policy, please notice that you needs to insert your bucket name in codeblock “Resources”

[
    {
        "AllowedHeaders": [
            "*"
        ],
        "AllowedMethods": [
            "PUT",
            "POST",
            "DELETE",
            "GET"
        ],
        "AllowedOrigins": [
            "*"
        ],
        "ExposeHeaders": [
            "x-amz-server-side-encryption",
            "x-amz-request-id",
            "x-amz-id-2",
            "ETag"
        ],
        "MaxAgeSeconds": 86400
    }
]