I am trying to move images for my site from my host to Amazon S3 cloud hosting. These images are of client work sites and cannot be publicly available. I would like them to be displayed on my site preferably by using the PHP SDK available from Amazon.
So far I have been able to script for the conversion so that I look up records in my database, grab the file path, name it appropriately, and send it to Amazon.
//upload to s3
$s3->create_object($bucket, $folder.$file_name_new, array(
'fileUpload' => $file_temp,
'acl' => AmazonS3::ACL_PRIVATE, //access denied, grantee only own
//'acl' => AmazonS3::ACL_PUBLIC, //image displayed
//'acl' => AmazonS3::ACL_OPEN, //image displayed, grantee everyone has open permission
//'acl' => AmazonS3::ACL_AUTH_READ, //image not displayed, grantee auth users has open permissions
//'acl' => AmazonS3::ACL_OWNER_READ, //image not displayed, grantee only ryan
//'acl' => AmazonS3::ACL_OWNER_FULL_CONTROL, //image not displayed, grantee only ryan
'storage' => AmazonS3::STORAGE_REDUCED
)
);
Before I copy everything over, I have created a simple form to do test upload and display of the image. If I upload an image using ACL_PRIVATE, I can either grab the public url and I will not have access, or I can grab the public url with a temporary key and can display the image.
<?php
//display the image link
$temp_link = $s3->get_object_url($bucket, $folder.$file_name_new, '1 minute');
?>
<a href='<?php echo $temp_link; ?>'><?php echo $temp_link; ?></a><br />
<img src='<?php echo $temp_link; ?>' alt='finding image' /><br />
Using this method, how will my caching work? I'm guessing every time I refresh the page, or modify one of my records, I will be pulling that image again, increasing my get requests.
I have also considered using bucket policies to only allow image retrieval from certain referrers. Do I understand correctly that Amazon is supposed to only fetch requests from pages or domains I specify?
I referenced: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=188183𭼗 to set that up, but then am confused as to which security I need on my objects. It seemed like if I made them Private they still would not display, unless I used the temp link like mentioned previously. If I made them public, I could navigate to them directly, regardless of referrer.
Am I way off what I'm trying to do here? Is this not really supported by S3, or am I missing something simple? I have gone through the SDK documentation and lots of searching and feel like this should be a little more clearly documented so hopefully any input here can help others in this situation. I've read others who name the file with a unique ID, creating security through obscurity, but that won't cut it in my situation, and probably not best practice for anyone trying to be secure.