Question

I’m configuring a Django project that were using the server filesystem for storing the apps static files (STATIC_ROOT) and user uploaded files (MEDIA_ROOT).

I need now to host all that content on Amazon’s S3, so I have created a bucket for this. Using django-storages with the boto storage backend, I managed to upload collected statics to the S3 bucket:

MEDIA_ROOT = '/media/'
STATIC_ROOT = '/static/'

DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE = 'storages.backends.s3boto.S3BotoStorage'
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID = 'KEY_ID...'
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY = 'ACCESS_KEY...'
AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME = 'bucket-name'
STATICFILES_STORAGE = 'storages.backends.s3boto.S3BotoStorage'

Then, I got a problem: the MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT are not used within the bucket, so the bucket root contains both the static files and user uploaded paths.

So then I could set:

S3_URL = 'http://s3.amazonaws.com/%s' % AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME
STATIC_URL = S3_URL + STATIC_ROOT
MEDIA_URL = 'S3_URL + MEDIA_ROOT

And use those settings in the templates, but there is no distinction of static/media files when storing in S3 with django-storages.

How this can be done?

Thanks!

Answer 1

I think the following should work, and be simpler than Mandx’s method, although it’s very similar:

Create a s3utils.py file:

from storages.backends.s3boto import S3BotoStorage

StaticRootS3BotoStorage = lambda: S3BotoStorage(location='static')
MediaRootS3BotoStorage  = lambda: S3BotoStorage(location='media')

Then in your settings.py:

DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE = 'myproject.s3utils.MediaRootS3BotoStorage'
STATICFILES_STORAGE = 'myproject.s3utils.StaticRootS3BotoStorage'

A different but related example (that I’ve actually tested) can be seen in the two example_ files here.