I currently have an app deployed to fly.io and I am having issues trying to upload images straight to the phoenix server. I want my images to be uploaded to a /static/uploads folder and served from there. main_photo_location = consume_uploaded_entries(socket, :main_photo_location, fn %{path:…

[image] JoeZMar: What am I doing wrong? Can’t test now, but you can try to set up a Plug.Static like this in your endpoint.ex, and adjust at to "/uploads", from to the uploads dir in the system ("/app/uploads"), and since the uploaded files are probably at the root of /app/uploads you don’t …

[image] JoeZMar: How can I upload to a folder called uploads in my static directory and have it persist when I redeploy? You need volumes for that. As with any docker based system files won’t persist across instances unless you mount some persistent storage into the running docker instance.

So this is my first time using Docker, so that would make sense. I previously used to run Nginx and a ubuntu instance. Right now I created a volume on fly.io and then put this: [mounts] source="artistic_translations_uploads" destination="priv/static/uploads" in my fly.toml. My uploads still b…

Okay, so I think I have a grip on it now, but am having another issue. How do I mount the drive, and access them within the static_path? fly.toml [mounts] source="artistic_translations_uploads" destination="app/uploads" runtime.exs config :artistic_translations, uploads_dir: "app/upload…

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JoeZMar February 1, 2024, 11:23pm 7

Thank you, that was exactly what I needed.