Uploads to external storage

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Hi all,

I’m trying to change the Discourse uploads location to an external storage location on my self-hosted instance due to space constraints. I have a CIFS share mounted and already copied all existing uploads with the same directory structure to the mounted location.

Then, I added the following lines to the app.yml:

- volumes:
  - volume:
      host: /<storage-location>/uploads
      guest: /shared/uploads

After rebuilding the container with ./launcher rebuild app (I’m the root user), the images are not visible anymore on the website. I appears that they all return a code 404.

I tried mounting the CIFS share as root:root and _default_hostname:www-data, but every time, images don’t show up.

What is the best (or correct) way to perform this change of locations for uploads?

Thanks in advance guys!

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Here is what is the default:

volumes:
  - volume:
      host: /var/discourse/shared/standalone
      guest: /shared

You probably want something like this:

volumes:
  - volume:
      host: /var/discourse/shared/standalone
      guest: /shared
  - volume:
      host: /your/cifs/share/discourse-uploads
      guest: /shared/uploads
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