S3 buckets containing periods not allowed

[fearlessfrog]

We worked around that here @gingerman :

S3 upload bucket, cdn url and bucket name in CNAME

I was recently looking at doing this, and wanted to chime in with a reason why it is useful. We use a free Cloudflare plan (as we’re a small forum) and it works great. We turn off rocketloader etc and just use it like a decent pull CDN by pointing the Cloudflare subdomain DNS entry (forum.) at the discourse instance and all is good. It speeds things up and protects our server nicely. When we wanted to switch to use S3 for uploads from local files, we realized that we can’t use Cloudflare for …