File Upload
Configure file upload and storage
In this article you will find all of the settings related to File Uploads.
General Settings
- File Uploads Enabled: Use this setting to enable or restrict file uploads on your server
- File Uploads Enabled in Direct Messages: Use this setting to enable or restrict file uploads on Direct Messages
- Maximum File Upload Size (in bytes): Use this setting to define the maximum allowed file size for uploads.
Set it to -1 to remove the file size limitation. - Accepted Media Types: Use this setting to define what types of files the users will be able to upload.Comma-separated list of media types. Leave it blank for accepting all media types.
- Protect Uploaded Files
- Yes: Only authenticated users will have access to the uploaded files.
- No: If in possession of the uploaded file's URL, unauthenticated users will be able to access and download said files.
- Storage Type
- GridFS: Uses the GridFS storage type
Amazon S3
- Access Key: Your Amazon Access Key ID (optional)
- Secret Key: Your Amazon Secret Access Key (optional)Note: If no
AWSAccessKeyIdandAWSSecretAccessKeyare set, the underlying AWS SDK will fallback to trying to retrieve credentials from the usual locations. - Bucket name: The bucket name you've created on Amazon S3
- Bucket URL(Optional): Override URL to which files are uploaded. This URL will also be used for downloads unless a CDN is given
- CDN Domain for Downloads(Optional): If you had set a CDN for your bucket, put it here
- Proxy Avatars: Proxy avatar file transmissions through your server instead of direct access to the asset's URL
- Proxy Uploads: Proxy upload file transmissions through your server instead of direct access to the asset's URL
- Region(Optional): If you have created your bucket on region different from the US Standard, you have to set their code here (see a list of region codes here)
- Signature Version: Identifies the version of AWS Signature that you want to support for authenticated requests.
- URLs Expiration Timespan: Time after which Amazon S3 generated URLs will no longer be valid (in seconds). If set to less than 5 seconds, this field will be ignored.If you run into issues with files not loading consistently for some users located further from server location. Increasing this time might help.
FileSystem
- System Path: The local path for where the uploaded files will be stored.
Google Cloud Storage
The settings used when configuring a Google Cloud Storage server. You can find more details in here​
- Google Storage Bucket Name: The name of the bucket to which the files should be uploaded.
- Google Storage Access Id: The access ID (or username) of the service account which has access to your Cloud Storage bucket.The Access Id is generally in an email format, for example: "[email protected]"
- Google Storage Secret: What is essentially a .pem containing your private key and certificate.
- Proxy Avatars: Proxy avatar file transmissions through your server instead of direct access to the asset's URL
- Proxy Uploads: Proxy upload file transmissions through your server instead of direct access to the asset's URL
WebDAV
Settings used in the setting of a WebDAV storage server.
- Upload Folder Path: WebDAV folder path which the files should be uploaded to.
- WebDAV Server Access URL: The URL of the WebDAV server (WebDAV URLs of Common Cloud Storage Services).
- WebDAV Username: Username for the remote WebDav server.
- WebDAV Password: Password for the remote webdav server.
- Proxy Avatars: Proxy avatar file transmissions through your server instead of direct access to the asset's URL.
- Proxy Uploads: Proxy upload file transmissions through your server instead of direct access to the asset's URL.
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