<![CDATA[Mastodon and S3/Minio]]>Hello! I'm trying to figure out how to get my cloudron Mastodon to use a Minio instance on another VPS.

Based on https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/optional/object-storage-proxy/, I see this:

At last, you'll want to make sure Mastodon is using your new proxy to generate file URLs. Edit your Mastodon's .env.production to add:

S3_ALIAS_HOST=files.example.com

But the previous instructions seem to assume I'm using an nginx proxy for a Minio setup on the same machine as the Mastodon instance.

For my situation, would I simply just need to write

S3_ALIAS_HOST=ip:port/bucketname

Has anyone else successfully set this up? Thank you!

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/7124/mastodon-and-s3-minioRSS for NodeWed, 07 Oct 2026 19:10:59 GMTMon, 30 May 2022 15:32:43 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Mastodon and S3/Minio on Tue, 22 Nov 2022 21:29:24 GMT]]>I will mark this as solved as many users have succeeded to use s3 for media storage already.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/56793https://forum.cloudron.io/post/56793Tue, 22 Nov 2022 21:29:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Mastodon and S3/Minio on Mon, 30 May 2022 20:29:37 GMT]]>@girish Great, I'll give it a try. Indeed, I need something like this because the size of my main Mastodon installation on Cloudron is already over 28GB! I've had to turn off Auto-Backup for it since it takes so long.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/48808https://forum.cloudron.io/post/48808Mon, 30 May 2022 20:29:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Mastodon and S3/Minio on Mon, 30 May 2022 19:17:01 GMT]]>@scooke Look at this https://github.com/cybrespace/cybrespace-meta/blob/master/s3.md instead. The one you linked is for proxying object storage requests via mastodon for caching purposes. The variables you need are:

S3_ENABLED
S3_BUCKET
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
S3_REGION
S3_PROTOCOL
S3_HOSTNAME
]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/48796https://forum.cloudron.io/post/48796Mon, 30 May 2022 19:17:01 GMT