After enabling secure media, I saw this: “Page publishing cannot be enabled if secure media is enabled.” (when I tried to turn on page publishing in admin settings) I currently need to use page publishing, so was surprised to see that secure media and page publishing seem to be incompatible. This…

Thanks. Yes I’ll have to consider if there are any other ways that a file upload could be picked up by search engines. But is there a way to do secure media uploads while also having page publishing?

Can I use secure media and page publishing simultaneously in Discourse?

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) February 20, 2022, 8:24pm 2

Nothing is required for that. If the category is private search engines can’t see them. Secure uploads ensures that even with the link to the upload, someone cannot access the files.

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Can I use secure media and page publishing simultaneously in Discourse?

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