Trying to setup Digital Ocean Spaces for S3 storage. I get this when I try to run backups… [image] Same when I upload photos… [image] I have this setup… [image] …but I’m not sure how to test if those actually work. I don’t know these systems very well. This is just for a small friends grou…

This is what finally worked: These settings had to be in the app.yml config in order for it to finally run the rakes correctly. When they were just in the /admin/site_settings/ area, it wouldn’t run the rakes correctly. I was getting an errror: ERROR: Ensure S3 is configured in config/discourse.co…

Digital Ocean Spaces (S3) "unable to sign request without credentials set"

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Digital Ocean Spaces (S3) "unable to sign request without credentials set"

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