Hi, I’m trying to setup S3 uploads and it seems that the uploads are working correctly but the GET requests are failing for a weird reason. It seems that discourse is adding a “.cn” to the URI of the uploaded object After uploading the image in my S3 bucket the public URL is: https://hobig...buck…

You should follow the instructions in Configure an S3 compatible object storage provider for uploads and/or Set up file and image uploads to S3 and put those settings in your yml file rather than in the database/UX. You don’t need to configure an endpoint for AWS. You do want to configure a CDN.

Hi @pfaffman , It seems like you might have unintentionally pasted the same guide twice. When you mention “settings in your yml file,” could you clarify which YAML file you’re referring to? Are you perhaps talking about the app.yml file located in the /var/discourse/containers folder? Additionally…

[image] Luka: It seems like you might have unintentionally pasted the same guide twice. Sorry. One of those should have been Set up file and image uploads to S3 . [image] Luka: could you clarify which YAML file you’re referring to? See the linked topics that describe how to configure S…

Hi @pfaffman , I have my S3 bucket, CloudFront setup, and CloudFront’s origin set to my S3 bucket. Here’s my current app.yml configuration: ENV: DISCOURSE_USE_S3: true DISCOURSE_S3_REGION: eu-central-1 DISCOURSE_S3_ACCESS_KEY_ID: AKIAWPLPUxxxxxx DISCOURSE_S3_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: PaXQu7pKxxxx …

[image] Luka: it just shows the loader without loading anything I suspect that’s because you didn’t follow the instructions. [image] Configure an S3 compatible object storage provider for uploads In order to store Discourse static assets in your Object Storage add this configuration on yo…

Sorry, you’re right I skipped that part exactly. I added the following into my app.yml and now it is loading the forum correctly: after_assets_precompile: - exec: cd: $home cmd: - sudo -E -u discourse bundle exec rake s3:upload_assets - sudo -E -u discourse b…

Hi Jake, I’m not sure I understand correctly what you mean. Could you please elaborate it a bit more? Did you maybe mean that instead of setting the S3 bucket as the origin of the CDN I should set my forum.hobiguru.com domain as the origin? If that’s so I don’t think that would change anything sinc…

You just can’t name a sub-domain only in app.yml. No one can’t use it without proper DNS info. And because serving your files happens from AWS you have to configure that side too, if you want to use CDN. But again. Users see url of Disourse, if they want to see it. Quite rarely others than an admin…

Hi @Jagster Actually, I don’t want to use a CDN at all—I just want all user uploads to be stored in S3 and served directly from there although CloudFront is trully a better solution than S3 directly. My issue arose when I tried to set up S3 (specifically for serving assets, not uploads), and @pfaf…

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Jagster (Jakke Flemming) January 10, 2025, 7:38am 8

You have to configure CDN and it using your wanted domain on AWS’s side. Plus in DNS.

But why? Practically no one ever sees that URL.

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