Loading from S3 for media previously uploaded to S3

  • I was previously using similar functionality to what this plugin provides on a WP Engine server. They set it up on their end, and all of my media has already been uploaded to S3.

    Now I have moved my install to another server (not WPE) and I am hoping to continue using LargeFS thanks to this plugin.

    All of my media files exist in the media library but are ALREADY on AWS S3 servers.

    Is there some way I can make the plugin rewrite URLs to the remote S3 location of files already uploaded previously to S3?

    I’d like to avoid having to download all my files from S3 to my server if possible.

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/amazon-s3-and-cloudfront/

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  • Thread Starter adaldesign

    (@adaldesign)

    @brad Touesnard, could you perhaps simply indicate where the code that rewrites the media URLs is in the plugin so that maybe I can write a little patch for my own purposes?

    Plugin Contributor Iain Poulson

    (@polevaultweb)

    We are currently working on the Pro version to allow uploading of existing media files to S3, however, matching media attachments with already existing S3 content would be a little trickier.

    We hook into the WordPress ‘wp_get_attachment_url’ function to rewrite to the S3 URL, take a look here https://github.com/deliciousbrains/wp-amazon-s3-and-cloudfront/blob/master/classes/amazon-s3-and-cloudfront.php#L609

    Thread Starter adaldesign

    (@adaldesign)

    Hey polevaultweb,

    Thank you for the insight. I’ll look into hacking a patch using the code you referenced. I’m sure I can somehow choose a date-range as the condition to fetch from S3…

    I’ll let you know if I succeed!

    @adaldesign

    This is how the plugin works, for every media file it uploads to s3, it insert a row to the wp_postmeta table using the add_post_meta(), this way the plugin knows the files that have been uploaded to s3 before its serves them.This is what you will do, write a script than will add post meta data for all your media files like so.

    // foreach objects in your s3 account  populate the following args
$args = array(
 'bucket' => $bucket,
 'key'    => $key,
 'region' => $region,
);

add_post_meta( $media_id, 'amazonS3_info', $args );

    After running this db upgrade, the plugin will serve your files from s3, I have tried it on my end and it’s working. If you need further assistance please do let me know.

    Thank You.

    Plugin Contributor Iain Poulson

    (@polevaultweb)

    you rock @phpcentre

    @polevaultweb Thanks

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