Trying to upload PDF’s I have followed all the posts here on how to do it and nothing works - always blocked even if smaller than limit size set. I have added ‘pdf’ to the allowed file suffixes list. Consequently created an AWS Free Tier S3 account and a backet. Nothing uploads to S3, not even image…

So I spent the time learning the details of Amazon S3, Cloudfront and so on. I am happy to report it uploads great! But still totally unable to upload any PDF. I can’t quite see how this could be S3 related given that other files work fine - but I may be wrong. No matter what size I set for file u…

Finally figured it out at last. I had to add client_max_body_size in the nginx reverse proxy server for discourse. In hindsight this is obvious, but it takes time to see sometimes!

Good catch! So obvious… once you know. Stuff like that is hard to figure out and why standard installations are (mostly) so that’s supported here.

Can't upload PDF to S3

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) December 21, 2021, 1:53pm 2

So it’s not a PDF issue, but an S3 issue. DId you follow Using Object Storage for Uploads (S3 & Clones) or Setting up file and image uploads to S3?

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Can't upload PDF to S3

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