Question

Cannot integrate Spaces with Node Express: Region is missing

Posted on March 3, 2025
DigitalOcean Spaces Node.js
Asked by Todica Lorin

Hello,

I am trying to implement the upload functionality in my Node Express application using DigitalOcean Spaces. I am using “@aws-sdk/client-s3” and I think I have the correct configuration, but for some reason I am encountering the “Region is missing” error when trying to do an upload. Here is my s3 configuration:

const s3 = new S3Client({
          endpoint: "https://fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com",
          region: "us-east-1",
          credentials: {
                accessKeyId: "accessKeyId",
                secretAccessKey: "secretAccessKey"
          }
        });
const s3Provider = { aws: {
    upload: async (file) => {
      const { buffer, originalname, mimetype } = file;
      const key = `uploads/${Date.now()}_${originalname}`; 

      const params = {
        Bucket: 'your-bucket-name',  // Your Space's name
        Key: key,  // Key to store the file under
        Body: buffer,  // File content
        ContentType: mimetype,  // MIME type of the file
        ACL: ObjectCannedACL.public_read, 
      };

      try {
        // Perform the file upload
        const data = await s3.send(new PutObjectCommand(params));
        return {
          url: `https://fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com/${key}`,  // Return the file URL
          key: key,  // Store the file key for later reference
        };
      } catch (error) {
        console.error('Error uploading file to DigitalOcean Spaces:', error);
        throw error;
      }
    },
}}

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Bobby Iliev

Site Moderator

• March 4, 2025

Hi there,

Based on the docs here, I think that the problem is with your S3 client configuration. Try the following:

const s3 = new S3Client({
  forcePathStyle: false, // This is important!
  endpoint: "https://fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com", // This is fine
  region: "us-east-1", // This is correct
  credentials: {
    accessKeyId: "accessKeyId",
    secretAccessKey: "secretAccessKey"
  }
});