Hi all: New admin just coming to terms with Discourse. I’ve recently enabled the “enable s3 uploads” and the “secure media” features in my 2.6.0.beta4 installation. it appears to be working – I can upload images and they are served from s3 with an expiry token set (was expecting them to get served …

I’m wondering if the question I asked is a FAQ or I asked it in a unclear way. Can anyone spot any problems with what I’m asking, if it’s not clear what I’m trying to achieve?

[image] boojit: I’m wondering if the question I asked is a FAQ or I asked it in a unclear way. Your question is clear and searching for “secure media optimized images” on Meta isn’t returning any useful results, so it’s not a FAQ. I am not sure how optimized images are intended to be handled…

Thanks for the reply Simon. I’m wondering what steps I could take to debug this further. I guess I might have to spin up a new instance and do a fresh install, and then i can play around with the options and see what happens. At this point, I’m not even sure if moving to s3 storage broke it or if en…

Hi Jeff, Yes I read those warning when I set it up. But the actual configuration seemed pretty straightforward and went smoothly. Is there more complexity to the configuration than is covered in that document? My forum is already up and in the air, seems to be going well except for this one thing…

@martin is the resident expert on it.

I just tried this out, and with secure media set up and everything my large image upload is working fine, and 5 optimized images are created with the correct security. Looking at how these are generated, I am wondering if your responsive_post_image_sizes or create_thumbnails site setting has been ch…

Hi martin, Both responsive_post_image_sizes and create_thumbnails are set to their defaults ([1, 1.5, 2] and true, respectively). I uploaded this image with a resolution of 7680x4320, and I can see that the original is correctly stored in my s3 /orginal/1x folder AND there is an optimized version …

Secure media and optimized images?

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) October 23, 2020, 3:12am 5

Note that secure media is a very complex, expert level feature. So you should expect.. challenges.

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