My GCP storage bucket is only displaying images when I'm logged into Google

Question

I'm new to GCP - have created a bucket that I want to use as a CDN to serve images and videos to my website. The problem I'm having is that when I'm logged in to Google my videos and images are displaying no problem, however when not logged They do not show.

I have added an allUsers member and assigned "storage object viewer" role - the bucket is tagged as public but still the content wont display

Am I missing something totally obvious?

Any guidance would be very much appreciated

Matt

Can you paste the URL of your image? (the path name can be obfucated, I mainly want to see the host name) — guillaume blaquiere

Serhii Rohoza Serhii Rohoza · Accepted Answer · 2020-02-12T08:49:02

Have a look at the documentation Making all objects in a bucket publicly readable and Making individual objects publicly readable and check if your images available through directly links. I've tried and in works for me from different devices. If you have no problems with direct access though provided at Cloud UI links you should check configuration CMS system of your site. I found this example for WordPress that could be useful.

Then, I've tried to disable public access for test purposes and got an error:

<Error>
<Code>AccessDenied</Code>
<Message>Access denied.</Message>
<Details>
Anonymous caller does not have storage.objects.get access to test-public-bucket-1/test-public-image-1.jpg.
</Details>
</Error>

Do you have any error messages when you're trying to reach your images and videos through directly links and via your website? If you have errors only while trying to view images and videos at website, you should check logs of web server that serve your website.

EDIT Have a look at the screenshots:

and

publicly accessible link you can get by clicking on the link icon after word Public as you can find in the documentation:

Once shared publicly, a link icon appears for each object in the public access column. You can click on this icon to get the URL for the object.

use it instead of Link URL that I noticed in your answer.

Meanwhile you use correct role Storage Object Viewer at the screenshot for allUsers and this role has permission storage.objects.get as you can see in the documentation. So, no research needed.

Did you mistype Storage Object Viewer role as Storage Object Reader in your answer?

My GCP storage bucket is only displaying images when I'm logged into Google

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