After banging my head into a wall for 3 hours trying to make my AWS S3 configuration work with Discourse on AWS Lightsail instance I am of the strong belief that a simple straightforward tutorial on this would be nice. There are ALL sorts of rabbit holes to go down with this. I mean I have no proble…

Hi Jay. Yes I have looked at that one many times now. Being that it’s from 2020 it has things like DISCOURSE_S3_REGION settings, but the admin area has no such setting. Also.. wouldn’t I rake my old data AFTER setting up the S3 properly and verifying it works? This is the kind of stuff I am talkin…

Here is where I am at currently. I have a CDN working and manually uploaded a file which works: https://s3.kitmaker.net/IMG_7184.JPG When I upload via Discourse I get: Failed to open TCP connection to discourse-kitmaker.s3.kitmaker.net:443 (getaddrinfo: Name or service not known) Here are my …

[image] Jim_Starkweather: Yes I have looked at that one many times now But you show that you’re not following those instructions. [image] Jim_Starkweather: the admin area has no such setting That’s why you need to follow those instructions and not do it in the ux. Those are the instr…

Thanks for those links. The first link you posted has another link in the AWS area ( Set up file and image uploads to S3 ) from 2013 so I am running up immediately against them saying to put in X bucket policy (which seems outdated) when the AWS CDN via Cloudfront has already replaced the policy wit…

It’s not really the “Fill in the blank” settings in app.yml or the admin settings that are the issue. It’s more a combination of how those settings are interacting with the bucket created or the CDN, etc. So it’s the Amazon side of things that needs some enlightening. I mean I get it, that’s not Dis…

I see. I haven’t set up an aws bucket in a while. That part can be more complicated, but it’s not what you posted how you did. But that too is pretty straight forward, you paste the stuff in and then if you have errors you can address them. [image] Jim_Starkweather: It’s not really the “Fill i…

Sorry I said I manually uploaded that test file. Here is the setup page for a bucket. [Screenshot 2025-12-01 162336] [Screenshot 2025-12-01 162232] [Screenshot 2025-12-01 162300] There is no specific user creation for keys and secrets, or, on the subsequent pages either. [image] [image]

An AWS S3 Integration with Discourse Tutorial would be nice

Support

pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) November 29, 2025, 8:47pm 2

Did you look at Configure an S3 compatible object storage provider for uploads?

Topic		Replies	Views
S3 and Cloudfront - Setup Not Working Self-hosting s3	19	1231	November 5, 2023
How are you authenticating Discourse to AWS? Help us improve the settings! Feature s3	3	129	October 9, 2025
Set up file and image uploads to S3 Self-Hosting configuring , how-to	35	120053	October 25, 2025
Incorrect S3 warning in admin menu Bug	6	1025	December 29, 2020
Unable to setup S3 bucket Self-hosting uploads , s3	11	315	January 12, 2025

An AWS S3 Integration with Discourse Tutorial would be nice

Related topics