Users are facing issues with registering public assets in Discourse plugins, specifically when trying to access images on a private members-only site. featheredtoast shared their problem with the Discord oauth plugin, and Nikolay also reported the same issue.
simon provided the solution by referencing an old Discourse plugin, trout_emoji, which demonstrates how to register public assets. The key is to add images to the public/images directory in the plugin, and they will be available on the server at /plugins/plugin_name/images/, where plugin_name is the name specified in the plugin.rb file metadata.
Nikolay confirmed that this solution worked, and the problem was due to a misunderstanding of the plugin name in the path.
Forgive me if this has been asked before, but I am unable to find a previous topic on this.
I’m wondering how to register an asset as public (such as an image) through a discourse plugin - it seems currently after registering, I get a 404 or 302 response when installing under a private member’s only site.
This is in reference to the Discord oauth plugin I built - I am unable to retrieve the image either directly, or through a register_asset call.
How would I go about serving static plugin assets in this case?
The last time I tested this, adding images to a plugin in the public/images directory will make them available on the server in /plugins/plugin_name/images/
The plugin name that you use in the path is the plugin name that you give in the metadata at the top of the plugin.rb file, for example /plugins/trout_emoji/images/trout-square.jpg
