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

[DavidO (David)]

Trying to setup Digital Ocean Spaces for S3 storage.

I get this when I try to run backups…

Same when I upload photos…

I have this setup…

…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 group forum.

Initially I had the below live, but I had to comment it back out on the app.yml because it wouldn’t rebuild with those lines live. Not sure if it’s still necessary or not at this point…

@Discourse

after_assets_precompile:
    - exec:
        cd: $home
        cmd:
          - sudo -E -u discourse bundle exec rake s3:upload_assets
          - sudo -E -u discourse bundle exec rake s3:expire_missing_assets

I’ve manually uploaded a file from the Digital Ocean Spaces admin area, set it to public, and I’m able to pull it up through a browser.

I also manually created the “*****-backups” folder in DO Spaces.

Here’s an example of how little I know. I’m stuck here and I don’t really know why. Somehow I’ve backed myself out of something and I’m not sure how to get back.

For some reason what’s usually in /var/discourse now seems to be in /var/www/discourse

I’m just stuck at this point though. I’ve searched through the forum and not found anything that will solve it. I’ve spent a day in the same loop. This is along the same lines, but it’s actual AWS S3 and not DO Spaces (S3)…

AWS S3 upload - unable to sign request without credentials set

Tried now, to set up IAM User with credentials and give it s3:* permissions, and now the upload works, but discourse can´t display it afterwards: [The image failed to load, resulting in a black screen with the text "The image could not be loaded." displayed. (Captioned by AI)] As I´m working in a company, and there are SCP (Service control policies) active for our accounts, it seems that public access is generally blocked [The image shows a settings page where public access is blocked for a…

Any assistance would be appreciated. Thank you.

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

You’re missing the use_s3 setting that’s recommended on the topic you linked.

You should copy paste those settings from the topic you linked rather than trying to type them. You need colon not equal.

If you’re seeing stuff at /var/www/discourse you’re inside the container. You need to exit to get back to the os.