JSWebP Rewrite not working with offload media

Hello,

The site I’m working on uses WP Offload Media to offload media to a DigitalOcean S3 bucket. The image is converted and saved as an additional webp during that process.

The media is not saved long term to the local WordPress instance.

I am uanble to get JS WebP rewriting to work even though the .webp file is available on the bucket. I have added the bucket url to the EWWW external path settings. I think that part is fine.

I’ve been looking at the debug logs and it seems like the system is trying to compare the offloaded file to the path that it would be at, if it were stored locally. But the problem is that we don’t store the files locally. (eg mydomain.com/wp-content/uploads…)

Is there any way to make this url replacement to work without storing the files locally?

I know that the force webp does work, but I think this is too risky for my liking. There has been instances in the past where I tried to use this and some images ended up broken. So, I really prefer to use the js rewriting if at all possible.

Thanks!