Django media uploads to AS3

Question

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

Answer 1

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/

Answer 2

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.