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Saturday, 26 March 2022 16:29 CDT

lacwebadmin

Hello!

I'm posting this as a question and I hope you'll give me time to answer. I know my issue is not related to your Akeeba Backup product. I don't have a problem with your products.

Anyhow, I am trying to debug an issue with JCE Editor using their Amazon S3 plugin and for some reason, I cannot list the bucket content. I am getting:

Alert

The server returned an invalid JSON response.

But prior to that, I got a more descriptive error:

An error has occurred.

0 Akeeba\Engine\Postproc\Connector\S3v4\Connector::putObject(): [6] Could not resolve host: lacwebsite.s3.s3.amazonaws.com.amazonaws.com

Debug info:

Is there a flag or a way to enable the Debug info in your S3 library so I can see what's going on? I'm sorry to bother you but any help would be greatly appreciated, I've been trying to fix this issue for quite some time and Ryan from JCE doesn't have a clue why either since it is working in his instance. I also setup a new instance outside of the dev box and network that I am working on and it worked. I just can't drop the current dev box that I am working on. Thanks, Jackson

Sunday, 27 March 2022 14:28 CDT

nicholas

There is no debug mode, you are already getting the debug message and I can tell you exactly what the problem is. The s3.amazonaws.com part is repeated which tells me that there's an issue in how Ryan is using our library. Using the us-west-1 region and the bucket name lacwebsite yields the correct domain name lacwebsite.s3.amazonaws.com which does resolve fine:

$ dig lacwebsite.s3.amazonaws.com

; <<>> DiG 9.10.6 <<>> lacwebsite.s3.amazonaws.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 39256
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1232
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;lacwebsite.s3.amazonaws.com.	IN	A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
lacwebsite.s3.amazonaws.com. 42821 IN	CNAME	s3-us-west-1-w.amazonaws.com.
s3-us-west-1-w.amazonaws.com. 5	IN	A	52.219.192.73

I know this is not a problem with our library since I am using it in the Amazon S3 Fileystem plugin for Joomla 4 I will be releasing this week (https://github.com/akeeba/plg_filesystem_s3). You can ask Ryan to take a look at how I am using the library in this plugin in case he can spot what the problem is with his implementation.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

Sunday, 27 March 2022 15:44 CDT

lacwebadmin

Hi Nicholas,

Thank you so much for looking at it and for your instruction, I will relay that to Ryan.

Monday, 28 March 2022 15:36 CDT

lacwebadmin

Hi Nicholas,

I like the idea of this plugin, but can I use to create a field type via XML form and it will save the media file into S3? I wish it does, then it solves my issue and I don't need JCE Editor S3 plugin.

Can't wait and try it out.

Thanks,

Jackson

Edited by lacwebadmin on 2022-03-28 15:37 CDT

Tuesday, 29 March 2022 02:04 CDT

nicholas

XML forms can have EITHER a media field to select a media file OR a file (upload) field. The upload field needs to be handled by code and is outside the scope of this plugin and JCE.

So, I assume that what you really mean is “if I have a Joomla media field and someone clicks on it will the media manager popup be able to upload to S3?”. The answer to that is yes.

Every filesystem plugin in Joomla defines roots. These roots appear in the left hand side of the media manager. Select the root and you are viewing files from and uploading files to that root. It doesn't matter if that root is a local filesystem, a remote FTP/SFTP server, an S3 bucket etc.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

Tuesday, 29 March 2022 16:45 CDT

lacwebadmin

So, I assume that what you really mean is “if I have a Joomla media field and someone clicks on it will the media manager popup be able to upload to S3?”. The answer to that is yes.

That's what I meant. Can't wait for your release to test it out.

Thanks!

Wednesday, 30 March 2022 02:50 CDT

nicholas

You'll have to wait a few days, I spent yesterday trying to help some Joomla core developers understand why a feature they pushed was bad — as in you-can-easily-lock-yourself-out-of-the-site bad. Hopefully I will manage to make a release this week 🤞🏽

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

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