TL;DR: I’m having trouble understanding how avatars are accessed on S3. I’m in the process of moving my Discourse over to AWS, where all the rest of my websites are. I’m a huge proponent of CloudFront, not just as a traditional CDN, but as a Varnish-like front-end with multiple origins. I like to r…

Yeah, that’s because we proxy them in order to deal with ‘unknown’ size (the “120” in your URL) and whatnot. app/controllers/user_avatars_controller.rb main hijack do image = LetterAvatar.generate(params[:username].to_s, params[:size]…

[image] DanielMarquard: With S3 uploads enabled, newly-uploaded avatars appear to be missing locally and remotely. Are they any upload-related errors in the /logs? Are you S3 settings correct?

[image] zogstrip: Are you S3 settings correct? Yes. Working great for uploads into topics. But, like I said, there is no user_avatar directory in S3. Should there be? [image] [image] zogstrip: Are they any upload-related errors in the /logs? There was this, which probably has someth…

Sorry, I misread your original post and misunderstood your question. When S3 is enabled, avatars are stored like any other images: in the “/original” directory for the uploaded file and in the “/optimized” directory for the different thumbnails.

[image] zogstrip: When S3 is enabled, avatars are stored like any other images: in the “/original” directory for the uploaded file and in the “/optimized” directory for the different thumbnails. When I enable S3, newly-updated avatars still use the same URL scheme, for example: https://critco…

[image] zogstrip: Yeah, that’s because we proxy them in order to deal with ‘unknown’ size (the “120” in your URL) and whatnot. Got it. So the avatars that are displayed in posts and profiles are still stored on S3, but use that URL scheme as an internal rewrite?

How are avatars stored and accessed?

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zogstrip November 18, 2016, 5:17pm 2

Are they any upload-related errors in the /logs?

Are you S3 settings correct?

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