Configure an S3 compatible object storage provider for uploads

[Zup]

This isn’t going smoothly for me, sorry to reply so many times.

@Falco

Choose your provider from the list below and add these settings to the env section of your app.yml file, adjusting the values accordingly:

AWS S3

What we officially support and use internally. Their CDN offering Cloudfront also works to front the bucket files. See Setting up file and image uploads to S3 for how to configure the permissions properly.

  DISCOURSE_USE_S3: true
  DISCOURSE_S3_REGION: us-west-1
  DISCOURSE_S3_ACCESS_KEY_ID: myaccesskey
  DISCOURSE_S3_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: mysecretkey
  DISCOURSE_S3_CDN_URL: https://falcoland-files-cdn.falco.dev
  DISCOURSE_S3_BUCKET: falcoland-files
  DISCOURSE_S3_BACKUP_BUCKET: falcoland-files/backups
  DISCOURSE_BACKUP_LOCATION: s3

If I do the above, should I ignore the admin panel settings for s3 and backups?

@zogstrip

Now that you’ve properly set up S3, the final step is to configure your Discourse forum. These instructions should work, but the preferred method is to use environment variables and a CDN as described in Using Object Storage for Uploads (S3 & Clones) .

Make sure you’re logged in with an administrator account and go the Settings section in the admin panel.

Type in “S3” in the textbox on the right to display only the relevant settings:

Or should admin panel settings be configured as well?