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Hi there,
We recently enabled remote storage to Amazon S3 for EasySocial. The same time we have cometchat and smart shoutbox extensions installed on our joomla website. These two extensions were using the users' avatars taken from EasySocial. Once we have set up the cron to store remotely the EasySocial files to Amazon S3, these two extensions stopped displaying the users' avatars because the avatars' storage path has changed from the local server to the remote server. In order to correct the issue we selected the avatars to be stored on our local server from the path:
joomla backend/components/easysocial/settings/remote storages
But the avatars are still remotely stored to Amazon S3 despite the fact that we selected these to be saved to the local server. To reproduce the issue just upload one avatar. The avatar will be displayed on the cometchat extension for around 5 minutes only (the time that the cron is set to run and transfer the avatars to Amazon S3, although this is not selected as explained above). We also checked Amazon S3 and we found the new avatars stored there meaning that they have been transferred indeed.
In addition, if we store the avatars on our local server this means that if a user uploads 50 avatars during the time he/she uses our site, this means that all 50 photos will be saved to out local server, is this correct? We are just trying to understand the extend of the memory needed in case we finally store the avatars to our local server, as we do not see any other solution at the moment.
Regards,
We recently enabled remote storage to Amazon S3 for EasySocial. The same time we have cometchat and smart shoutbox extensions installed on our joomla website. These two extensions were using the users' avatars taken from EasySocial. Once we have set up the cron to store remotely the EasySocial files to Amazon S3, these two extensions stopped displaying the users' avatars because the avatars' storage path has changed from the local server to the remote server. In order to correct the issue we selected the avatars to be stored on our local server from the path:
joomla backend/components/easysocial/settings/remote storages
But the avatars are still remotely stored to Amazon S3 despite the fact that we selected these to be saved to the local server. To reproduce the issue just upload one avatar. The avatar will be displayed on the cometchat extension for around 5 minutes only (the time that the cron is set to run and transfer the avatars to Amazon S3, although this is not selected as explained above). We also checked Amazon S3 and we found the new avatars stored there meaning that they have been transferred indeed.
In addition, if we store the avatars on our local server this means that if a user uploads 50 avatars during the time he/she uses our site, this means that all 50 photos will be saved to out local server, is this correct? We are just trying to understand the extend of the memory needed in case we finally store the avatars to our local server, as we do not see any other solution at the moment.
Regards,
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