Unable To Regenerate Thumbnails When Using With LargeFS (WP Engine)

  • Hi – We are running into issues with regenerating all images in the media library.

    A little background information: Our host provider is WP Engine and we are using their LargeFS storage (https://wpengine.com/blog/unlimited-storage-with-wp-engines-proprietary-largefs/). LargeFS allows files that are on the server to be offloaded onto AWS S3 buckets to save space. Files that are uploaded to WP remain on the server for 10 days and then are offloaded to AWS.

    The issue lies when the files are hosted on AWS. The plugin is unable to regenerate any of those images. This is the failure message we get:

    (ID 60503)
    The originally uploaded image file cannot be found at <PATH>.

    This isn’t an issue when a media file is still on the WP Engine server (before offloading). They are able to regenerate successfully.

    We are assuming this is an issue with the plugin not being able to correctly route to where the image lies on AWS.

    Any insight you can provide is highly appreciated. We have been troubleshooting with the WP Engine team and would like to know your thoughts.

    Thanks!

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  • We too have run into this issue and just so you know wpengine is not willing to transfer the image back from s3 to wpengine to be regenerated.

    More than likely wpengine largefs is some kind of routing schema that only redirects incoming requests at the http server level rather than the file system level.

    If that is the case then it would be harder to work around. Perhaps if the file is not found locally it could try via the full media url.

    I’m also having this issue.

    The only solution I know of (which we’ve done, before) is to upload the images again over SFTP, then run the optimization immediately.

    Also, if it helps, we had to use an AJAX thumbnail regeneration plugin so that the thumbnail optimization plugin wouldn’t time out.

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