# 500 error in AWS s3 code

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**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [September 16, 2015, 2:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/500-error-in-aws-s3-code/33333 "2015-09-16T02:52:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![mc0e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c77e96/32.png) [@mc0e](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mc0e)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 1:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/500-error-in-aws-s3-code/33333/8 "2015-09-16T13:24:48Z")

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Looks like I had `SiteSetting.enable_s3_uploads` set, which is quite understandably incompatible with not setting `SiteSetting.s3_upload_bucket`, but it should be handled more gracefully.

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