Profile images doesnt load on S3

[jdaviescoates]

@jdaviescoates said in Profile images dosnt load on S3:

So I don't know if this is a bug or if I've got something wrong in my config?

Reading this https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/issues/4041

It sounds like you have to have FILESYSTEM_DRIVE=local for the Avatars to work. So I tried that.

But now it seems all files are getting stored twice, once locally and then again in the Object Storage.

See e.g. https://bridport.pics/i/web/post/522792891553329155

Really I only want to store thing in the object storage, not locally at all. But I've got MEDIA_DELETE_LOCAL_AFTER_CLOUD=true so maybe eventually it will delete the local versions?

Yep, it seems that perhaps files are just being cached locally, because if I open the Web Terminal and run php artisan cache:clear then right-click Open image in new tab it opens the S3 version (although as you can see in the post linked to above, for now the local version still seems to exist too... presumably eventually that'll get deleted, ah but then again perhaps not as per https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/issues/3845#issuecomment-1331691661 ).

[jdaviescoates]

@jdaviescoates said in Profile images dosnt load on S3:

presumably eventually that'll get deleted, ah but then again perhaps not as per https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/issues/3845#issuecomment-1331691661 ).

I've filed an issue about this:

https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/issues/4114

I've also confirmed that manually deleting images from the local storage via the File Manager does not break posts.

[doodlemania2]

@jdaviescoates similar impact on the latest build since we switched to dev branch! cc: @girish FYI only. Hope they get that bug fixed

[jdaviescoates]

@doodlemania2 yeah, it seems at present if you want profile images/ avatars to work you HAVE to have FILESYSTEM_DRIVER=local but then all your media is store BOTH locally AND on S3. Odd.

The obvious solution would seem to me to be to simply make avatars/ profile images work when FILESYSTEM_DRIVER=s3 too, then all would be fine and dandy imho.

[doodlemania2]

@jdaviescoates yep - it's a bit of an odd situation. and blocking me from going live

[jdaviescoates]

@doodlemania2 said in Profile images dosnt load on S3:

Hope they get that bug fixed

Like it to help them pay attention to is?

[jdaviescoates]

@doodlemania2 said in Profile images dosnt load on S3:

@jdaviescoates yep - it's a bit of an odd situation. and blocking me from going live

I'm not expecting to be swamped with users and so I've decided to go live with having everything store twice for now because I've a fair bit of unused disk space right now. If I end up getting a load of active users then I may need to manually start deleting stuff from local storage until this is fixed, but hopefully it'll be fixed before then!

[doodlemania2]

@jdaviescoates I'm stuck on the URL still being munged with half local and half s3 with the profile pic...

[jdaviescoates]

@doodlemania2 said in Profile images doesnt load on S3:

@jdaviescoates I'm stuck on the URL still being munged with half local and half s3 with the profile pic...

Ah, I think removing/ commenting out AWS_URL might fix that.

Can't remember exactly but I had it and then later after doing something, I didn't.

I think perhaps it was that, or it that plus changing FILESYSTEM_DRIVER from s3 to local.

[doodlemania2]

@jdaviescoates filesystem to local did it!

[alwynispat]

Another weird thing about the app is that if you upload from web, it's serving the image from the Server even though both locations has it.
if you upload from the app, it'll serve from s3.

then when you run php artisan cache:clear it'll get fixed.

Wonder if it'll auto switch to s3 without touching.

Since it's storing images on both locations, will it like auto delete from server?

[jdaviescoates]

@alwynispat said in Profile images doesnt load on S3:

Wonder if it'll auto switch to s3 without touching.
Since it's storing images on both locations, will it like auto delete from server?

I think it's supposed to do that after 12 hours or something , but I've not checked properly to see if that is indeed the case .

[gh0stface]

Hello, is there any update/guidance from the Cloudron team on this? As in the original topic posted- profile images not properly working if using S3 as storage?

Anyone else able to figure anything else out with the profile avatar and using S3 compatible storage?

If I'm understanding this correctly (and I could be wrong), this issue was addressed by this commit back in July 2022. And was bundled into the v0.11.4 release, which was made available in Oct 2022.

[alwynispat]

@gh0stface so this is what I've setup;

## S3 Storage
PF_ENABLE_CLOUD=true
FILESYSTEM_DRIVER=local
FILESYSTEM_CLOUD=s3
PF_LOCAL_AVATAR_TO_CLOUD=true
MEDIA_DELETE_LOCAL_AFTER_CLOUD=true
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=xxx
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=xxx
AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=xxx
AWS_BUCKET=mediapixelfedsg
AWS_URL=https://media.pixelfed.sg
AWS_ENDPOINT=https://xxx.backblazeb2.com
#AWS_USE_PATH_STYLE_ENDPOINT=false

and it works.