# I can't upload photo after setting Cloudflare R2
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-cant-upload-photo-after-setting-cloudflare-r2/408303
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Tags:** uploads, s3, cloudflare
**Created:** [July 22, 2026, 11:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-cant-upload-photo-after-setting-cloudflare-r2/408303 "2026-07-22T23:09:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@haha](https://meta.discourse.org/u/haha)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2026, 11:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-cant-upload-photo-after-setting-cloudflare-r2/408303/1 "2026-07-22T23:09:40Z")
Hello everyone, thanks for your time.
After setting Cloudflare R2 on my discourse, I can’t upload photo in creating topic, here is my setting:
I confirm I use the **Account API Tokens(it’s active), not User API Tokens. Permission is** Object Read & Write.
And I have set custom domain for the uploads bucket, it’s active:
And set the **CORS Policy:**
But I can’t upload photos after setting all above. Anyone can help to solve it? Many thanks!
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### Author:  [@haha](https://meta.discourse.org/u/haha)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2026, 11:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-cant-upload-photo-after-setting-cloudflare-r2/408303/2 "2026-07-22T23:11:21Z")
here is custom domain and CORS setting
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### Author:  [@Lilly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lilly)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2026, 12:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-cant-upload-photo-after-setting-cloudflare-r2/408303/3 "2026-07-23T00:00:40Z")
hi @haha 👋 welcome 🙂
> 
1. you should set the region to `US East (N. Virginia)`:
1. does your CORS policy on cloudflare via json looks like this? you need the `ETag` exposed header.
```plaintext
[
{
"AllowedOrigins": [
"https://forum.example.com"
],
"AllowedMethods": [
"GET",
"PUT",
"POST",
"DELETE",
"HEAD"
],
"AllowedHeaders": [
"*"
],
"ExposeHeaders": [
"ETag"
],
"MaxAgeSeconds": 3000
}
]
```
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### Author:  [@Lilly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lilly)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2026, 12:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-cant-upload-photo-after-setting-cloudflare-r2/408303/4 "2026-07-23T00:06:15Z")
btw, you should follow this documentation here exactly: [Configure an S3 compatible object storage provider for uploads](https://meta.discourse.org/t/-/148916#p-738234-cloudflare-r2-13)
> [@Configure an S3 compatible object storage provider for uploads](https://meta.discourse.org/t/configure-an-s3-compatible-object-storage-provider-for-uploads/148916/1):
>
> Cloudflare R2 is compatible with S3 object storage when using Cloudflare CDN. Cloudflare’s [free plan offers 10GB of storage](https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/#developer-platform/storage) which should be more than plenty for most forums’ needs.
>
> To configure Cloudflare R2, you will need to configure the relevant settings in the Cloudflare dashboard under R2 Object Storage.
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### Author:  [@haha](https://meta.discourse.org/u/haha)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2026, 11:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-cant-upload-photo-after-setting-cloudflare-r2/408303/5 "2026-07-23T11:04:56Z")
hi, my CORS policy is same as yours. After setting S3 region to N. Virginia, it works! Thanks for your advice!
I tried some regions except Virginia, all failed. Only Virginia works. This is a tricky point, as I found other document didn’t highlight this, they said “choose a nearest region is OK”. But experiment proves only Virginia is the right choice!
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2026, 11:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-cant-upload-photo-after-setting-cloudflare-r2/408303/6 "2026-08-22T11:05:15Z")
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