I'm trying to upload all the Django media files (uploaded from the admin panel) to Amazon S3. So settings file look something like this :
INSTALLED_APPS = (
'django.contrib.auth',
'django.contrib.contenttypes',
'django.contrib.sessions',
'django.contrib.sites',
'django.contrib.messages',
'django.contrib.staticfiles',
'django.contrib.admin',
'tastypie',
'core',
'advertisment',
'storages',
)
DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE = 'storages.backends.s3boto.S3BotoStorage'
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID = 'xxx'
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY = 'xxx'
AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME = 'media'
MEDIA_URL = 'https://s3.amazonaws.com/%s/' % AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME
and when I try to upload a file from the admin panel, i get the following error:
S3ResponseError: 403 Forbidden
I checked this answer but still didn't help
Have you installed boto, as django-storage has a dependency on boto?
Then you will have to add the following into your settings.py
import os
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID = os.environ.get('AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID')
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY = os.environ.get('AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY')
AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME = os.environ.get('S3_BUCKET_NAME')
STATICFILES_STORAGE = 'storages.backends.s3boto.S3BotoStorage'
DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE = 'storages.backends.s3boto.S3BotoStorage'
STATIC_URL = 'http://' + AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME + '.s3.amazonaws.com/'
ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX = STATIC_URL + 'admin/'
Then your cache will be stored on AWS S3 itself.
I hope it helps
Note: for security reasons its a good idea to add your AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY as environment variables instead of just writing them down in setting.py directly.
First do you need setup in your settings.py the media url where you put your media files. This article help you with to setup your media files in aws https://www.caktusgroup.com/blog/2014/11/10/Using-Amazon-S3-to-store-your-Django-sites-static-and-media-files/
