Add correct URL to s3 backend error message

[mbtamuli]

Terraform Version

Terraform v0.9.2

Affected Resource(s)

• backend "s3" documentation

Terraform Configuration Files

terraform {
  backend "s3" {
    bucket = "tfstate-bucket"
    key    = "terraform.tfstate"
    region = "us-east-1"
    encrypt = "true"
  }
}

Expected Behavior

It shouldn't link to a nonexistent page. https://www.terraform.io/docs/state/remote/s3.html

Actual Behavior

On terraform apply, because my ~/.aws/credentials file was not created and I had not specified the access key and the secret key, it showed an error.

terraform init
Initializing the backend...

Error configuring the backend "s3": 1 error(s) occurred:

* No valid credential sources found for AWS S3 remote.
Please see https://www.terraform.io/docs/state/remote/s3.html for more information on
providing credentials for the AWS S3 remote

Please update the configuration in your Terraform files to fix this error
then run this command again.

Steps to Reproduce

Please list the steps required to reproduce the issue, for example:

1. Confgure s3 backend.
2. Provide no credentials and don't create AWS credentials file(~/.aws/credentials).
3. terraform init

[shdobxr]

Same version of Terraform (windows) and indeed I am puzzled by the dead link as well.

[bflad]

The fix for the error messaging has been merged and will release with version 0.13.0-beta2 of Terraform.

[ghost]

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