I recently setup a spaces bucket on Digital Ocean. Currently I have a mix of locally stored images on a DO droplet along with that spaces bucket. After initially not configuring the S3 CDN for spaces, I went back and did that and rebaked all posts so the images would have CDN links. Since then it lo…

Just as a followup for future reference, migrating all images to spaces bucket fixed the problem and everything is now lightboxed after a long rebake. If you want the lightbox to work properly you can’t have a mix of local and remote.

Hi Sam, thanks for the follow up. To clarify I have a mix of locally stored images being used in existing posts that predated setting up a spaces bucket for image uploads, along with newer posts post image upload settings change containing images uploaded to a spaces bucket. Any posts containing im…

Lightbox not working for some locally stored images

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sam (Sam Saffron) October 22, 2018, 4:35am 2

There is no automatic migration when you switch settings.

You have to run a rake task.

./launcher enter app
rake uploads:migrate_to_s3
rake posts:rebake

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Lightbox not working for some locally stored images

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