Utilizing shortLinking

[workmap]

Greetings I am trying to implement short linking in terriamap share. I see that there is a shareURLPrefixes property in devserverconfig.json ( terriajs-server shareURLPrefixes configuration ). I used the aws s3 configuration but nothing happens. I gave IAM permissions to my terriamap container to handle the s3 gut and get requests. I have verified that shareUrlPrefix is loaded into terriajs-server. However the url is not shortened and nothing is written to s3.

Has anyone worked with shareUrlPrefixes for s3?

[nf-s]

Hi @workmap

Are you able to share your configuration (without secrets of course)?

The following config is working for me on latest version of terriajs

{
  "newShareUrlPrefix": "s",
  "shareUrlPrefixes": {
    "s": {
      "service": "s3",
      "region": "ap-southeast-2",
      "bucket": "xxx",
      "accessKeyId": "xxx",
      "secretAccessKey": "xxx"
    }
  }
}

[workmap]

Hi @nf-s,
Thanks for the reply. Here is my configuration:

"shareUrlPrefixes": {
        // A blank prefix resolves without the separator: .../#share=12345
        "s": {
            "service": "s3",
            // Required: the AWS region to access
            "region": "us-east-1",

            // Required: an existing S3 bucket in which to store objects
            "bucket": "gp-sit-us-east-1-terriamap-sharing"

            // Optional: The access key ID and secret access key of a user with S3 getObject and putObject permission on the above bucket
            // If not provided here, you must ensure they're available as environment variables or in a shared credentials file.
            // See http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSJavaScriptSDK/guide/node-configuring.html
            
            // "accessKeyId": "",
            // "secretAccessKey": "",

            // Optional: The length of the random share key to generate (not including prefix), up to 54 characters. Defaults to the full length.
            // "keyLength": 16
        }
    }

I am not providing the accessKeyId or the secretAccessKey but instead providing IAM permissions to the container. Can this be done or do I need to use the accessKeyId and the secretAccessKey.

I have also tried with my accessKeyId and secretAccessKey but the results are the same.

When working there should be a short URL here right?

[nf-s]

Providing IAM permissions to VM/container should be fine.

Yes the short URL should appear there.

Are you getting any error messages from the POST request made to terriajs-server (on /share)

Also, do you have "newShareUrlPrefix": "s", in your configuration?

[workmap]

Thanks for the help! Ahhh the newShareUrlPrefix was definitely one of the problems. Now I'm able to use the share feature with accessKeyId and secretAccessKey. However when I try to use IAM permissions instead I get the following error:

Missing credentials in config, if using AWS_CONFIG_FILE, set AWS_SDK_LOAD_CONFIG=1

If accessKeyId and secretAccessKey are not provided is AWS_CONFIG_FILE required?

I could not locate the POST request to terriajs-server. Is that being made from terriajs or Terriamap?

We are currently using this commit ad0689e82f10dfb880e37d440c0ac668e1090dd6 of Terriamap.