Drupal Module - Stage File Proxy
According to the description of the “Stage File Proxy” module’s offical page (link):
Stage File Proxy is a general solution for getting production files on a development server on demand. It saves you time and disk space by sending requests to your development environment’s files directory to the production environment and making a copy of the production file in your development site. You should not need to enable this module in production.
Its installation for drupal of core 8+ is rather straight-forward:
1 2 3composer require drupal/stage_file_proxy #install the stage file proxy module drush en stage_file_proxy #enable the stage file proxy module drush config-set stage_file_proxy.settings origin "https://example.com" #configure the origin
GovCMS - Stage File Proxy
According to article: “Stage File Proxy: Media assets will not be able to be properly viewed in the feature branch” in GovCMS Support by Yvonne Norris (link), to enable and configure stage file proxy on the local environment (or feature branch), you will need to set the environmental varibale STAGE_FILE_PROXY_URL on the .env file located at the root folder of the project folder:
You can find the Url for the STAGE_FILE_PROXY_URL variable at the GovCMS project panel (use the url that start with nginx)
Once you have made and commited the change, you should be able to see the media assets that are present on th eproduction environment from a secondary environment such as feature branch; Note that if you only want the Stage File Proxy to happen on the local environment, you don’t need to commit it, simply run ahoy drush cr or ahoy drush down -y && ahoy drush up -y.