Hey guys, I´m using 3.4.0.beta3-dev, and I´m getting the mentioned error (but only in ui, not the logs) when trying to upload an image into a topic. my config is thus: ["s3_upload_bucket", "<bucketname>/discourse-uploads"], ["s3_backup_bucket", "<bucketname>/discourse-backups"], ["s3_region", …

Tried now, to set up IAM User with credentials and give it s3:* permissions, and now the upload works, but discourse can´t display it afterwards: [The image failed to load, resulting in a black screen with the text "The image could not be loaded." displayed. (Captioned by AI)] As I´m working in a…

Make sure your EC2 instance has the right permissions to upload to S3, like s3:PutObject and s3:GetObject. Double-check your S3 bucket’s region and access settings. You might also want to try turning on s3_use_acls: true if necessary. You can also test uploading directly with AWS CLI to rule out per…

hmmmm… My EC2Instance Roles policy look loike this: [ { "Action": [ "s3:PutObject", "s3:AbortMultipartUpload", "s3:PutLifecycleConfiguration", "s3:PutObjectVersionAcl", "s3:PutBucketCORS", "s3:DeleteObject", "s3:PutObjectAcl", …

I was getting the same error message as the original poster here, with a similar configuration. I verified that I could get and put s3 objects using the AWS CLI from my EC2 instance even though Discourse was unable to do that. I created a new IAM user with the same permissions policy as my EC2 inst…

AWS S3 upload - unable to sign request without credentials set

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MihirR (Mihir) December 17, 2024, 10:42am 5

Hope this works for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjebh5AOZ8E . This would work for you if it’s not explicitly blocked by your company.

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AWS S3 upload - unable to sign request without credentials set

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