I had this problem before and decided that I was crazy, confused, or the database on the site was suspect, but this is on a brand new site. Also, I was on Digital Ocean spaces, so I thought it might be a problem somehow. I’m trying again to figure out how to keep images on AWS S3 like I think the B…

[image] pfaffman: Is there an after_bundling_assets stanza that I could add that to? You can use after_assets_precompile as the hook for that rake task.

Aha! Thanks very much for that. Where does the list of those things live? I’m still confused why this is necessary, especially since you seemed confused before. (Or maybe I should be happy that I can push all this stuff to S3, now that I know how to do it–And I think that it was you who said that o…

I’m trying this again. I’ve got uploads going to s3. That works. I configured cloudflare to CDN the site. If I enter https://lc-XXX.literatehosting.com/uploads in the s3_cdn_url site setting, new uploads go to the S3 bucket and the image is linked to the CDN url and it works. BUT if I try to set t…

I happened across this while figuring out some clashing settings names . I think (and hope, because it means I understand this and didn’t write absolute nonsense in the thread linked above) that if you remove these two lines: DISCOURSE_S3_BUCKET: 'lc-xyz' DISCOURSE_S3_BUCKET_NAME: 'lc-xyz' Then yo…

[image] LeoMcA: I think (and hope , because it means I understand this I think that you do understand, and, thanks to you, I’m at least closer to understanding myself! Thanks very much!

Running into this and still very confused after reading this thread… I’m trying to server s3 uploads (not compiled assets) from CDN (Cloudfront). If I configure “s3 cdn url” via the settings screen, it works as expected (well…except for System upload not using s3 cdn url ) However, if I configure …

That is my experience too. I ended up making a plugin to set the S3_CDN_URL.

@pfaffman seems like this should be filed as a bug then, yes?

Perhaps. It’s not a feature likely to be used by normal self hosters,so it’s going to be a low priority. Also, I think that there is soon to be a change in how global settings and shadowed by global work, so it’ll likely get worked out then.

seems the same issue turn me down here @pfaffman need your help do you use cloudfront to achieve the custom domain cdn url or just use the public prefix of bucket objects in cdn url

Defining DISCOURSE_S3_CDN_URL links to assets in S3 CDN URL

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You can use after_assets_precompile as the hook for that rake task.

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