Where are images and attachments stored? - Support - Discourse Meta From the link above, I can see that images and attachments are stored in deeper shared folder in Discourse installation, not inside the docker. Given that I would like to use a symlinked image folder from my second storage, which …

What if you used a CDN for the images instead?

@NateDhaliwal thank you for the idea. I stopped using CDN services like S3 long time ago. I only use cloudflare, but that doesn’t really store images. Correct me if I am wrong, but I think you are referring localized CDN like simple Nginx domain mapping, and use Discourse’s CDN extension like Ena…

Rather than a symlink, change the docker mount to point to your nfs mount. But getting permissions inside the container, outside the container, and on the remote nfs server on sync can certainly be tricky.

That was my initial attempt. Inside the docker, I found the file system for mine was kinda messed up that I found earlier. It was nested /uploads/uploads/uploads before /default/ was seen. Not sure what really happened, but I copied all files from the inside to my image mount, and added the mount fo…

[afbeelding] Keith Lee: I thought symlink can be much easier solution. I’m fairly certain that no good can from using symlinks. One issue is that it’s hard to have the symlink be the same inside and outside the container, and I’m guessing that your nested uploads issue is related to that. I’v…

Does Discourse support custom CNAME based CDN? I remember seeing S3 configuration in admin and meta posting for Fastly, but cannot quite remember custom CDN configuration.

[afbeelding] Configure an S3 compatible object storage provider for uploads Self-Hosting information_source This topic covers how to configure some common S3 compatible Object Storage providers (S3 clones). See Set up file and image uploads to S3 for more details about Am…

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keithkhl (Keith Lee) 23 oktober 2024 om 13:40 8

Found the posting. Guess I need to set up a self-hosted version of S3 compatible CDN. Mere Nginx image server isnt enough.

Topic		Antwoorden	Weergaven
Permissions for uploads folder? Self-hosting	16	290	12 augustus 2024
Help with mounting the new filesystem Support	22	1100	10 juli 2020
Cannot Locate Images Folder for Logo Support	6	1450	8 juni 2024
Uploads to external storage Support	6	139	16 juli 2025
Secondary drive mounted but Discourse not using it Support	6	74	2 januari 2026

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