Castopod Amazon S3 Configuration / Backblaze B2

scottalanmiller

If you want to use Castopod, you almost certainly want to connect it to an S3 bucket. But the documentation on the site is missing a couple critical elements. The bucket must be specified and the format of the host needs the header. Here is an example configuration from the end of the .env file.

media.fileManager="s3"
media.s3.endpoint="https://s3.us-east-001.backblazeb2.com"
media.s3.bucket="bucketname"
media.s3.key="mykeyID"
media.s3.secret="mykeySecret"
media.s3.region="us-east-001"

This took some tracking down. The media.s3.bucket is absolutely critical, but does not appear in the documentation. The https:// I'm told is required as it prefixes bad data without it.

travisdh1

That looks like a real pain to have tracked down!

anyaburke

You need to specify the AWS access key, secret access key, default region, S3 bucket name, and the AWS endpoint URL.
The AWS endpoint URL should be in the format "https://s3.your-region.amazonaws.com" age of war

anyaburke

The host format should start with "https://s3." followed by the AWS region and ".amazonaws.com".
The full format is: https://s3.your-region.amazonaws.com
Replace your-region with the actual AWS region where your S3 bucket is located.