Hello Discourse Team and Community, I’ve been trying to configure my self-hosted Discourse instance to use an external S3-compatible object storage, but I’ve run into a very persistent and unusual issue. I would be very grateful for any help. My Environment: Discourse Version: Standard Docker…

[image] Ryze_Chen: the site hangs on the initial loading screen (the blue spinner). Did you include bit to upload those assets to S3? [image] Configure an S3 compatible object storage provider for uploads In order to store Discourse static assets in your Object Storage add this configurat…

Troubleshooting S3 Uploads: Site hangs after rebuild, JS assets fail to load with net::ERR_... on both R2 and GCS

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tobiaseigen (Tobias Eigen) September 22, 2025, 10:29pm 3

@Ryze_Chen were you able to resolve your issue?

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Troubleshooting S3 Uploads: Site hangs after rebuild, JS assets fail to load with net::ERR_... on both R2 and GCS

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