S3MediaVault Installation

S3MediaVault is a WordPress plugin.

You install it just like you would install any WP plugin.

1) Download the plugin zip file S3MediaVault_vXX.zip to your desktop.

2) Log in to your WP admin panel, go to the Plugins section, add and upload the plugin file as usual, and activate it.

3) Now Under the “Settings” tab on your dashboard, you should see a new link called “S3MediaVault”.

Click on it. You are now on the S3MediaVault Plugin Configuration screen.

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4) In a new browser window, log in to your Amazon S3 account. Once you login, on the menu at the top, click on the “Your Account” tab, and then on “Security Credentials”

5) You will now see your Access Key and Secret Key (click on “Show” to show your secret key).

s3mv-amazon-credentials

6) Come back to the Config Screen for S3MediaVault.

Enter these Access Key, Security Key and your Bucket Name (folder where your files are stored in your S3 account).

Click on “Save Changes”.

s3mv-setup

Security Setting For Files

For each file that you use the S3MediaVault plugin with, please be sure to set the permissions of your file on Amazon S3 such that it won’t be open to the general public, but only you and the S3MediaVault script can access the files.

As you are browsing through the Amazon S3 files using either the Amazon S3 browser or the S3Organizer Firefox plugin tool, right click on the file name, click on “Edit ACL”, and then in the resulting permissions popup, make sure the permissions for “Everyone” is set to “X” (basically “No”) under the columns “Read”, “Write” and “FullControl”.

And the only row that should have all check marks, is the one that says “Owner” (it will have your Amazon S3 account name, of course).

In fact, if you should do this not just for all the files that you wish to use with S3MediaVault, but you should also do it for your bucket (folder) too, by right-clicking on the bucket name and setting similar permissions for the bucket contents as well.