Offload Media – Aws – Cloudfront – Setup V2

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Developer’s Guide to WP Offload Media

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Amazon S3 Quick Start Guide

This guide aims to help you start offloading your WordPress Media Library to an Amazon S3 bucket with WP Offload Media as quickly as possible.

We also have Quick Start Guides for other storage providers.

This article covers the following steps:

1. Log in to the AWS Console
2. Create an Amazon Web Services (AWS) User
3. Saving the AWS User’s access details for WP Offload Media to use
4. Activate Your WP Offload Media License
5. Configure WP Offload Media to offload newly uploaded media to an Amazon S3 bucket
6. Offload Your Existing Media Library
7. Next steps for setting up WP Offload Media to use a CDN

Log in to the AWS Console

Already have an Amazon Web Services (AWS) account? Sign in here.

If you don’t have an AWS account yet, you will need to sign up here.

Create an IAM User

Once you have logged into the console, you will need to create a new IAM user:

Navigate to the IAM Users page in the AWS Console, click the Add user button.

Enter a name for the user in the User name field.

Names are case insensitive and must be unique within your AWS account. User names can be a combination of up to 64 letters, digits, and these characters: plus (+), equal (=), comma (,), period (.), at sign (@), and hyphen (-).

Under Access type select the checkbox for Programmatic access, then click the Next: Permissions button.

To allow the new user to manage buckets and objects in the S3 service, you need to grant it specific permissions.

For this quick start guide we recommend giving the new IAM User full access to S3, and nothing else. Using the “AmazonS3FullAccess” policy helps avoid potential problems when first setting up WP Offload Media, but experienced users of AWS may wish to use a Custom IAM Policy. It’s always possible to later edit an IAM User’s policy to restrict access to only those resources required by WP Offload Media.

Click the “Attach existing policies directly” button, and then enter “s3” in the filter policies input box.

Select the “AmazonS3FullAccess” policy, then click the Next: Tags button at the bottom of the page.

Adding tags is purely optional, if you’re a heavy user of AWS you may have a reason to add tags here to help with management tasks. Whether you add tags here or not, click the Next: Review button at the bottom of the page to continue.

If everything looks good, click the Create user button.

You will be shown the security credentials for the user, which consists of an Access Key ID and a Secret Access Key. Amazon will not show these again so please download them as a .csv and also copy them somewhere safe. If you lose them, you can always create a new set of keys from the console but you cannot retrieve the secret key again later.

Clicking the Close button will return you to the IAM Users page.

Define Your Access Keys

Now that you have your AWS Access Keys, you need to add them to your site so that WP Offload Media can use them to work with the Amazon S3 service.

For better security, we recommend defining your access keys in your wp-config.php:

define( 'AS3CF_SETTINGS', serialize( array(
    'provider' => 'aws',
    'access-key-id' => '********************',
    'secret-access-key' => '**************************************',
) ) );

These should be placed before the following block of code in your wp-config.php:

/* That's all, stop editing! Happy publishing. */

/** Absolute path to the WordPress directory. */
if ( !defined('ABSPATH') )
    define('ABSPATH', dirname(__FILE__) . '/');

/** Sets up WordPress vars and included files. */
require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-settings.php');

Warning: If you define your access keys after this block of code, WP Offload Media will not be able to read them.

Alternatively, you can enter your access keys into the form on the Storage Provider page inside WP Offload Media, the first page shown when no keys are defined. This will save them to the database, which is less secure than defining them in your wp-config.php.

IAM Roles

If you’re running your site on an Amazon EC2 instance, you might like to use an IAM Role instead. This is even more secure than defining your access keys in wp-config.php.

Configure WP Offload Media

To start offloading newly uploaded media to Amazon S3 you need to first tell WP Offload Media which bucket it should use. If you have not already created a bucket to use with WP Offload Media, it can be created for you from WP Offload Media’s Settings page.

Go to the “Media Library” tab of WP Offload Media’s Settings page in the WordPress admin dashboard. If you have followed the steps above then you should see something like the following.

If you have already created the bucket you want to offload your media to, then you can enter the bucket name in the above input and click the “Save Bucket Setting” button.

If you haven’t created the bucket yet, then you can click the “Create new bucket” link to get a form where you can specify the new bucket’s name and region.

As long as you haven’t restricted your IAM User’s access to list buckets then you can also “Browse existing buckets.”