Amazon S3 - Plugin

• created: 08/10/2015
• latest update: 28/02/2019
• by: Proxibolt
• email: support@proxibolt.com

Thank you for purchasing the Amazon S3 plugin for Droppy - Online file sharing, this docuentation will help you installing and setting up the plugin.

View this video and follow the steps:

Or follow these steps:

1. Make sure you are using the latest version of Droppy and this plugin.
2. Download the plugin from CodeCanyon and unzip the file it should contain a directory called "Files".
3. Inside the "Files" directory is a directory named "droppy_s3", open this directory and inside you'll find a file called "settings.json", open the file with your preferred text editor.
4. Fill in your S3 settings (See the section "Configuration" for more info) and save the file.
5. Move the entire directory "droppy_s3" to the application/plugins/ folder on your server.
6. And that should be it, your S3 plugin is now installed.

All the settings can be found in the settings.json file. The file will inlcude the following options

• endpoint This is the URL to the S3 supported endpoint, leave this empty if you're using AWS S3
• key This is your authentication key, more info can be found over here https://console.aws.amazon.com/iam/home#security_credential
• secret This is your authentication secret, more info can be found over here https://console.aws.amazon.com/iam/home#security_credential
• region This is the region of your bucket, a full list of AWS S3 regions can be found over here
• bucket The name of your bucket
• path The path where files should be stored, leave empty to store in the root of the bucket

This will explain how the upload is going from a file on someone's computer till the file gets to your S3 bucket.

1. The user selects his/her files and clicks upload.
2. All the files will first be speretly uploaded to your web server.
3. After all the files have been uploaded to your server Droppy will start zipping them together to one single file.
4. The zip file will then be uploaded to your S3 bucket.
5. When the file is successfully uploaded to your S3 bucket Droppy will send out the emails to the receivers of the file.

Troubleshooting some problems that can occur:

Q: When I try to download a file it says "We are currently processing your files, please be patient"

A: This is the process when the file on your server is uploading to the Amazon S3 bucket, it can take a moment sometimes, depends on your server's internet connection and disk speed. Please contact us when this process takes longer than it should take.

Q: When I try to install the plugin it says "Upload failed"

A: It can be that the upload fails, I will suggest you to try it again. If this problem keeps occuring I will suggest to contact us.

Q: There is no "Plugins" tab in my admin panel

A: Please update to the latest version of Droppy, Contact us if this didn't worked.

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