I’m not sure if this is related so decided to create another post Successfully connected Discourse with digital ocean spaces (I think) https://meta.discourse.org/t/looking-for-doc-to-connect-discourse-with-digital-ocean-spaces/172917/8 and there’s an option within the ‘do spaces settings’ to enab…

There’s this [image] Configure an S3 compatible object storage provider for uploads DO offering is good and works out of the box. Only problem is that their CDN offering is awfully broken, so you need to use a different CDN for the files. Which I think you’ve confirmed.

Their CDN is “broken” because it sends incorrect headers, not because it returns Forbidden responses. @Pierre so it does work without CDN? If so, how did you configure the CDN?

Hi @pfaffman I found your post which also mentions the 403 error. It’s marked as closed. [image] Digital Ocean Spaces don’t implement the AWS S3 API for the CORS rule Self-hosting No, I really mean assets (uploads seem fine). It seems that when GlobalSettings.…

Hi @michaeld To be honest I’m not even sure if things are working correctly. I’ve been struggling with different configurations and there have been many changes trying to get Discorse to work with Digital Ocean Spaces. I will need to do a clean install.

Sorry. I may not have paid close enough attention to your specifics. The problem that I believe I had in that topic, which cost me 17 hours of down time for a high priority client during my vacation, is solved by adding the s3:upload assets to the app.yml.,and, I think, using the env variables to c…

403 Error with digital ocean cdn

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) December 11, 2020, 3:02am 2

There’s this

Which I think you’ve confirmed.

Topic		Replies	Views
Digital Ocean Spaces don’t implement the AWS S3 API for the CORS rule Self-hosting cdn , s3	16	3805	April 22, 2020
S3, Assets & CDN Error Self-hosting cdn , s3	3	803	August 5, 2023
Is DO Spaces CDN still broken? Any workarounds? Product Support	4	1833	August 13, 2022
Digital Ocean Spaces (S3) "unable to sign request without credentials set" Product Support uploads , backups , s3	19	891	January 7, 2026
Looking for doc to connect discourse with digital ocean spaces Product Support	6	2011	December 10, 2020

403 Error with digital ocean cdn

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