Discourse does not allow dot «.» symbol in bucket name while Amazon S3 allows it

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Rules for Bucket Naming from Amazon Documentation:

Bucket names must be a series of one or more labels. Adjacent labels are separated by a single period (.).
<…>
The following examples are valid bucket names:
<…>
my.aws.bucket

Using a domain name as a bucket name is so naturally, especially for site backup, so it would be nice if Discourse will support it.

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We did that because we had issues with the gem we used to communicate with S3. Now that we’ve got rid of it, I think it’s safe to loosen the check a bit.

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Test it out, I think we may need to use a diff Api unless they fixed it in v2

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Just tested it and it worked fine :wink:

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Wait, isn’t the dot restriction because it causes HTTPS to fail?

yes, it is:

ssl.CertificateError: hostname 'my.bucket.s3.amazonaws.com' doesn't match either of '*.s3.amazonaws.com', 's3.amazonaws.com'

It’s the SSL certificate, not the gem.

edit: If discourse isn’t always using SSL to talk to s3, that should be fixed. Both on server and client.

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Yes I agree, we should just disallow this, its adding complexity where complexity is not needed.

If people want vanity “sexy” names then can use s3_cdn. A solution that only works with HTTP is not really acceptable.

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Thanks for figuring that one out :sunny:

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/5de955451027951600e5ad8b76fa7d38e086603d

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