Defining DISCOURSE_S3_CDN_URL links to assets in S3 CDN URL

[eatcodetravel (Orlando Del Aguila)]

Here’s some information about this, I was dealing with this last month.

Assets not serving from CDN in latest update

Hello! I couldn’t figure out why in the latest update our installation stopped serving assets from the CDN. We are using Cloudfront and it was working good to serve both uploads and assets, but it looks like in the latest update assets are serving from the server instead. [image] Another issue we are having is if we pass the variable DISCOURSE_CDN_URL, Discourse starts requesting assets that are not being generated or uploaded by the s3:upload_assets task (stylesheets for example). This brea…

I fixed it by setting both variables (DISCOURSE_S3_CDN_URL and DISCOURSE_CDN_URL) and creating two CloudFront distributions, one for the uploads with origin the S3 bucket, and one for the assets with origin the server.

Here’s the code we use for this

• Cloudfront distribution with S3 as origin infra/live/prod/services/discourse/cloudfront.tf at master · debtcollective/infra · GitHub
• Cloudfront distribution with Server as origin infra/live/prod/services/discourse/cloudfront.tf at master · debtcollective/infra · GitHub

Here’s our app.yml (we named it web.yml), we replace variables at build time infra/modules/services/discourse/web.yml at master · debtcollective/infra · GitHub