So I have an Amazon S3 bucket set up to store my forum assets, and I put it on a custom domain and set up CloudFlare CDN to cache the content. My custom domain is called something like http://forum-storage.com , which points to https://forum-storage.com.s3-us-east-1.amazonaws.com . The S3 bucket itse…

[image] pnoeric: The S3 bucket itself is named forum-storage.com :rotating_light: STOP NOW :rotating_light: Create a new bucket that does not have a dot in its name. You will encounter endless suffering if you continue, due to how SSL wildcard certificates work. Ref: Discourse does not allo…

Hmmm ok. Momentary snag! :wink: Thank you for the heads-up @riking . AWS S3 has a feature where if you name the bucket the same as the domain, it easily lets you just add a CNAME record to the domain and it just all works . So now I’m searching everywhere for info on how to attach a domain to a buck…

Hmm, that’s nice, but you want to have a CDN e.g. CloudFront in front of the bucket, which will receive the cname, so that’s not a useful feature right now. Not having a CDN will get you the same exorbitant transfer bill.

Right. I think we’re on the same page? To be more clear, as I understand it, there are 3 types of ways to connect Discourse and S3: Have Discourse use S3 cloud directly. Pro: super easy to set up. Con: quickly becomes expensive. Have Discourse use S3 cloud through a custom domain (like forum-s…

There are tutorials for that, e.g. I just found this one for StackPath: https://support.stackpath.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001457743-Using-Amazon-S3-as-a-Site-Origin

@BryanV how did you point https://discourse-uploads.bokeh.org to your S3 bucket? I added a CNAME record pointing to the <long id>.cloudfront.net URL for the Cloudfront CDN distribution to our DNS configuration for bokeh.org (which is on Cloudflare in our case, but that should not matter). For re…

This is, without a doubt, the most frustrating thing ever. I can not, for the life of me, figure out how to string together Amazon S3 bucket (with no dot in the bucket name!), my custom domain, and CloudFlare to actually get them all to work. If I could put a dot in the bucket name, no problem. But …

Did you read this yet? I struggled with setting up S3 and Cloudflare as well but eventually figured it out. You can still use Cloudflare for its security benefit, but I’m pretty sure you need a separate CDN service as well. Cloudflare isn’t like a normal CDN, it works differently. You should move to…

Using Cloudflare to cache a S3 bucket means you need to manipulate the origin header in requests. That feature is available in the enterprise plan of Cloudflare, so using any other CDN may be easier.

Isn’t dot in bucket name irrelevant if he is going to cache the images via CDN anyway? The only thing that matters is having good cert that covers cloudflare served image. I think he needs to be focused on cloudflare servers, DNS and cert to cover that stuff. I don’t think user/browser ever will…

What are the right settings to use S3 bucket (with non-Amazon URL)?

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) August 25, 2020, 12:07am 20

Still

Do NOT put a dot (period) in your bucket name

I mean, unless you enjoy suffering.

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