Hello all! I followed this guide to setup s3. The only option I couldn’t find is " make sure the “Programmatic access ” checkbox is checked" I couldn’t find any option like that. But S3 is not working. [image] [image] [image] Notes: CDN is via CloudFront (s3 is the source of CloudFront) Thanks

Thanks a lot to @pfaffman Who gave me a clue about using www in the host address. My forum was using a non-www version! I changed to www version, and rebuilt it! Everything now works fine including cdn and assets! Thank You.

The rake task you’re running insists the specified values are in environment variables, it will not use the ones in the site settings.

Thanks for the response. I used rake, thinking that image urls would be replaced with CDN link. But the S3 setting itself is not working. Did I miss anything in the S3 configuration?

Yes, you need to set the environment variables to run the rake task to migrate to S3.

I’m not getting. Hope you reviewed my discourse settings. Any extra steps needed apart from this guide? Set up file and image uploads to S3

[image]Set up file and image uploads to S3 Discourse configuration Now that you’ve properly set up S3, the final step is to configure your Discourse forum. These instructions should work, but the preferred method is to use environment variables and a CDN as described in Configure an S3 compatible object storage provider for uploads . I believe you can get an overview of what environment variables you need here: Configure an S3 compatible object storage provider for uploads EDIT: In the context of a rake command, see the answer below :point_down:

[image] Arkshine: an overview of what environment variables you need here or from the error: [image] They must be set in the environment, not in site settings. You can provide them at the time the rake task is run by doing e.g.: DISCOURSE_S3_BUCKET=foo DISCOURSE_S3_REGION=us-east-1 DISCOURSE_S3_USE_IAM_PROFILE=true rake uploads:migrate_to_s3

oh okay! So, I’ll add this to app.yml Example: DISCOURSE_USE_S3: true DISCOURSE_S3_REGION: us-west-1 DISCOURSE_S3_ACCESS_KEY_ID: myaccesskey DISCOURSE_S3_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: mysecretkey DISCOURSE_S3_CDN_URL: https://falcoland-files-cdn.falco.dev DISCOURSE_S3_BUCKET: falcoland-files DISCOURSE_S3_BACKUP_BUCKET: falcoland-files/backups DISCOURSE_BACKUP_LOCATION: s3

Please read Michael’s answer instead!

Since my installation is fresh! My only concern is new images. Rake, I did because the article suggested. I thought just adding S3 settings via discource admin was enough to serve new images from S3!

See Configure an S3 compatible object storage provider for uploads

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supermathie (Michael Brown) November 3, 2023, 5:16pm 15

There’s 3 parts here:

can Discourse read/write/etc. on the bucket?
can anonymous users read from the bucket?
can the CDN read from the bucket?

Looks like it’s the second part not working?

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