Adobe Commerce on-premises 2.4.2: product image missing

This article describes a known Adobe Commerce on-premises 2.4.2 issue where the product image is not uploaded to the product page. This issue is scheduled to be addressed in a future version after version 2.4.3. There is not a solution available at this time, but as a workaround, you can disable Nginx to resize images.

Affected products and versions

Issue

The product image is saved in the s3 bucket, but it is not synced back to the pub/media directory. This issue only happens when using both:

Prerequisites:

Adobe Commerce installed with Nginx.

Steps to reproduce:

load_module /etc/nginx/modules/ngx_http_image_filter_module.so;
location /media/ {
    location ~* ^/media/catalog/.* {
        set $width "-";
        set $height "-";
        if ($arg_width != '') {
            set $width $arg_width;
        }
        if ($arg_height != '') {
            set $height $arg_height;
        }
        image_filter resize $width $height;
        image_filter_jpeg_quality 90;
    }

Expected results:

The product image is uploaded to the product page.

Actual results:

The product image is not uploaded to the product page.

Workaround

Disable Nginx to resize images.