How to validate the Amazon S3 installation
By Vlassis on Wednesday, 28 October 2015
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Hello,
I "think" I have already installed Amazon S3 and I have chosen to use it only for photos in EasySocial admin.

How can I validate that it is working fine?

Thanks
Hey Vaggelis,

I've checked this bucket ` corplace` from your Amazon S3, it seems like inside got a logs folder and included a lot of files. So I decide help you created another new bucket called ` corplace-com` ,you can take a look of this bucket, already uploaded some of the avatar image in Amazon S3 now.
Arlex Wong
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Friday, 06 November 2015 22:53
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Hey Vaggelis,

Check and see if the images are being served from Amazon instead of your site Also, you need to verify that the cronjob is setup correctly as the cron is responsible to offload the images to amazon.
Mark
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Thursday, 29 October 2015 01:43
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I see the URL:
https://www.corplace.com/media/com_easysocial/photos/33/221/12042752-1140295829331543-7304153158165682075-n_featured.jpg"

That is from my server?

How do I test if my cron is OK?
Vlassis
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Thursday, 29 October 2015 01:56
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Subscribed.

Hey Vaggelis,

I'm facing a similar issue and perhaps will get help from your query. Are you using Wanderers template for your site? If not, can you share what is it? Quite like the work you're doing there. Cheers!
Juz
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Thursday, 29 October 2015 09:09
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Hello Juz,
I have modified the T3 default template. It is so simple, fast and flexible. Thanks :-)

I need to know if my CRON is working OK, and if my Amazon S3 is OK also.
Vlassis
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Friday, 30 October 2015 04:14
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Hey Vaggelis,

I am sorry for the delay of this reply, I might have missed your post earlier as I was busy working out the new forums. To test this, try to run the cron with your web browser, http://yoursite.com/index.php?option=com_easysocial&cron=true

See if the result says something like "images uploaded to S3".
Mark
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Saturday, 31 October 2015 16:48
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I saw inside:
{"status":"200","contents":"No photos to upload to remote storage","time":"2015-10-31 09:18:36"}


So that is working? You are a master Mark!!!

P.S. Do you know how to locate these files in Amazon S3?
Vlassis
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Saturday, 31 October 2015 17:23
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You need to login to Amazon to manage your files The URL should be https://www.amazon.com/ap/signin
Mark
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Saturday, 31 October 2015 17:25
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In my Amazon S3 bucket home folder I see only the logs.

I uploaded one photo and the URL is
https://www.corplace.com/media/com_easysocial/photos/33/223/12042752-1140295829331543-7304153158165682075-n_large.jpg

So this is not from S3? Do you have a documantation for setting up the S3?
Vlassis
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Monday, 02 November 2015 01:22
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Hi Vaggelis,

You might want to take a look at our documentation on how to setup the S3 remote storage for your EasySocial.
http://stackideas.com/docs/easysocial/administrators/remote-storage

Hope this help and have a nice day!
Sam
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Monday, 02 November 2015 11:23
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Hi Vaggelis,

Hope your amazon s3 issue is resolved. Are you able to exchange notes on template and how to go about customizing T3. Can discuss separately via email - juz4rockATgmail

Appreciate help.
Thx.
Juz
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Wednesday, 04 November 2015 08:13
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Hey Vaggelis,

Keep us updated then if the Amazon s3 issue is not working yet.
Arlex Wong
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Wednesday, 04 November 2015 18:35
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Hello Arlex,
I studied the tutorials very carefully. I see no errors, and many logs at my S3 buck logs.

But I think that files are still storage in my server, not S3. Can you please advise?

Thank you so much!
Vlassis
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Wednesday, 04 November 2015 19:27
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hey Vaggelis,

Can you pass me with your Amazon S3 access so we can take a look of this?

You can provide us that details into this optional information section http://stackideas.com/dashboard/site
Arlex Wong
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Wednesday, 04 November 2015 19:38
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OK, I update it :-)
Vlassis
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Wednesday, 04 November 2015 22:24
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Thanks for getting back to us quickly, I've tried to access in your Joomla backend, but it seems like you provided that login credentials for the `Authentication Required` is not correct, please advise.
Arlex Wong
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Thursday, 05 November 2015 01:21
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Please use the same credentials for passing password protected directory with the Joomla admin credentials (you will have to enter twice).
Vlassis
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Friday, 06 November 2015 05:06
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Hey Vaggelis,

I am sorry for the delay of this reply,

I already tried enter that login credentials more than 2 times but unfortunately it still can't allow me to access.

Can you help?
Arlex Wong
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Friday, 06 November 2015 11:20
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Hello Arlex,
Please access through

https://www.corplace.com/administrator

And the credentials given in that ticket work very fine using it twice.

Please do not apologise for the late reply. You are the FLASH GORDON team, men!

Vlassis
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Friday, 06 November 2015 15:16
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Thanks for understand

Opps, it seems like your first post login credential is working but what you set from here http://stackideas.com/dashboard/site is not correct.

By the way, I noticed your backend Easysocial remote storage Access key ID and secret key is not same as your AMAZON S3 Your Security Credentials page, can you re-check again?
Arlex Wong
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Friday, 06 November 2015 15:50
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OK, I updated my stackideas.com/dashboard/site credentials

And I updated also S3 credentials in my admin. Lets see... :-)
Vlassis
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Friday, 06 November 2015 16:06
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May i know did you have create this bucket (https-www-corplace-com) in your AmazonS3?

Also your cronjob command is it got set the phrase key?
Arlex Wong
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Friday, 06 November 2015 16:25
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Yes to all ;-)

I think cron runs every hour, so I will check it later ;-)
Vlassis
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Friday, 06 November 2015 16:34
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Because when I access in your Amazon storage page, I didn't see any of this bucket name.

Alright, keep us updated then.
Arlex Wong
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Friday, 06 November 2015 17:10
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I did not know what to enter there, so I left empty and it auto filed.

Now I entered the bucked name: corplace

Is that right? Is the bucket path?
Vlassis
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Friday, 06 November 2015 19:27
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Thank you so much!!!

It seems that now S3 is working perfect, and the EasySocial cron also

Vlassis
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Saturday, 07 November 2015 00:20
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You're welcome, glad to heard your issue resolved.
Arlex Wong
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Saturday, 07 November 2015 00:36
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