Avatars not Uploading to S3

markersocial · September 11, 2019, 6:30am

So I migrated to using S3 for uploads a few months back for one forum. Overall it seemed like a success.

Uploads from new posts are going to S3 perfect
Migration of old uploads from posts to S3 worked fine using rake uploads:migrate_to_s3
Existing avatars did not migrate
New avatar uploads are not going to S3
New user background and card background images are uploading to S3 perfectly fine

In attempt to fix the problem. I tried running rake avatars:refresh and avatars:clean after following this thread: Problems with avatar uploads due to S3 changes - #21 by Daniel_Lopes. I also tried running rake uploads:migrate_to_s3 again. Didn’t solve the issue though.

Anyone know what I could be missing?

markersocial · September 13, 2019, 1:30pm

Another observation: I just noticed when I upload a new avatar, the image does successfully upload to s3. I can inspect element prior to saving and see that the url is a s3 (via cdn) url and it works fine. After I save however, all references to the avatar are for a local image (which also works).

codinghorror · September 14, 2019, 4:11am

Any ideas here @vinothkannans?

vinothkannans · September 16, 2019, 8:22pm

@markersocial your avatar uploads are still serving from the S3 storage only. The local URL which appears in the UI is a dynamic proxy URL which used to serve the avatars in many custom sizes.

github.com/discourse/discourse

config/routes.rb

main


      
              put "reorder/:direction" => "flags#reorder"
              member { get "/" => "flags#edit" }
            end
          
            resources :about, constraints: AdminConstraint.new, only: %i[index] do
              collection { put "/" => "about#update" }
            end
          
            resources :customize,
                      path: "customize",
                      constraints: AdminConstraint.new,
                      only: %i[index] do
              collection do
                get "/themes" => "customize#themes"
                get "/components" => "customize#components"
                get "/theme-site-settings" => "customize#theme_site_settings"
              end
            end
          end
          
          scope "/config" do

markersocial · September 17, 2019, 2:21pm

Thanks @vinothkannans, appreciate it! Really good to know.

I did notice though, when I inspect avatars in a thread on meta.discourse.org I see a cdn url. When I do the same on the other forum (that has a cdn configured for s3), I get a local url. Not sure if that’s a concern.

vinothkannans · September 17, 2019, 2:32pm

Because we have a separate CDN for local urls and assets.

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