Setting up backup and image uploads to DigitalOcean Spaces

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

No. Put your changes in environment variables. You now can override all site settings this way.

[Alex_Waters]

After following this guide and running ./launcher rebuild app in /var/discourse – the site is not serving the javascript / css from the DO CDN. Is there a way to have those files stored in spaces and served to users at the edge?

[marianord (Mariano Rodriguez)]

You might be facing this issue

@Falco

Only problem is that their CDN offering is awfully broken, so you need to use a different CDN for the files.

Using Object Storage for Uploads (S3 Clones)

I just went over some common Object Storage providers so I can attest if they work or not with Discourse. Provider Service Name Works with Discourse? Amazon AWS S3 Yes Digital Ocean Spaces Yes Linode Object Storage Yes Google Cloud Storage Yes Scaleway Object Storage Yes Vultr Object Storage Yes BackBlaze Cloud Storage Yes If you got a different service working, please add it to this wiki. Configuration In order to store Discourse static assets in your Object Storage a…

[Bill]

I know DigitalOcean’s CDN service doesn’t work with Discourse, but I plan on using BunnyCDN with DigitalOcean Spaces or BackBlaze.

Does this guide work without having to do the following?:

@Falco

Configuration

In order to store Discourse static assets in your Object Storage add this configuration on your app.yml under the hooks section:

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