On top of that, in the config.php file I set WP_CONTENT_DIR to $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . ‘/files’

Whenever I upload a file, it would be saved correctly on my website i.e. http://domain.com/files/media/2008/08/11/filename.txt but on S3 it would go to root/files/uploads/2008/08/11/filename.txt

It still upload to a directory called “uploads”. I wish for the files to be directly hosted in “files” directory or at least the same as the above, “files/media”

Please advice. Thanks.

class-plugin.php (line 108)

Change:
if (($record[0]['type'] != ‘CNAME’) || ($record[0]['target'] != $_POST['options']['bucket'].’s3.amazonaws.com’)) {
TO:
if (($record[0]['type'] != ‘CNAME’) || ($record[0]['target'] != $_POST['options']['bucket'].’.s3.amazonaws.com’) ) {

Hope that helps.

BTW: Why are files still stored in wp-content/uploads/ (in addition to S3) when using this plugin? Is there any way to NOT create the files in ‘uploads’ - seems a waste of space since it is never used.

Any idea ?

Yeah, uploaded files must pass through the WordPress application, since thumbnails need to get generated, and other meta data about the files registered. I’ll look into seeing if there’s a way to upload directly to S3, but one of the roadblocks that prevented me from doing this was that Amazon S3 doesn’t really support direct file uploads via a browser.

As for deleting files after they’ve been uploaded, this is an option on my todo list. But one of the reasons I didn’t automatically delete the files was so that if the plugin was disabled (for whatever reason), then references to your uploads would automatically revert back to your blog. So in a way, it acts as a backup for your media.

Thanks for the feedback!

I know there are cleaner ways to do this - like adding a ‘Do you want to store your uploads only on S3?’ option to the plugin setup screen - but I’m in a rush. This is what I did to get that effect:

Open the “{plugins-folder}/tantan/wordpress-s3/class-plugin.php ” file.
Look for the following line of code in the wp_update_attachment_metadata method:
“if ($this->s3->putObjectStream($this->options['bucket' ], $prefix.$file['name'], $file)) {”

At the END of this if statement (just before the ‘else’) add the following line:
unlink($data['file']);

Thanks again for the sweet plugin.