GCP Error 301 Moved Permanently error while trying to access a directory path on google cloud storage

Question

Accessing a directory path returns an empty object and a 301 HTTP response code.

Answer 1

If your browser downloads a zero byte object and you get a 301 HTTP response code when accessing a directory, such as http://www.example.com/dir/, your bucket most likely contains an empty object of that name. 

To check that this is the case and fix the issue:

1. Open the Cloud Storage browser in the Google Cloud Platform Console.

2. Click the Activate Cloud Shell button at the top of the Google Cloud Platform Console. 

3. Run gsutil ls -R gs://www.example.com/dir/. If the output includes http://www.example.com/dir/, you have an empty object at that location.

4. Remove the empty object with the command: gsutil rm gs://www.example.com/dir/

You can now access http://www.example.com/dir/  and have it return that directory's index.html file instead of the empty object.

Hope it works!!

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Thanks!