Need help with CDN on Django App using heroku

[Akash Purandare]

I am trying to serve both static and media files on Heroku by using an S3 bucket, but I do not know how to properly configure the settings.py for the same.
Does anyone know how to do it? If you do, please direct me to the correct set of information.

[Andrew Pinkham]

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/django-assets
http://whitenoise.evans.io/en/stable/django.html

[Michal Petrucha]

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Django itself does not ship with built-in support for S3, you'll have
to use a third-party package for that. django-storages appears to be a
popular one, I suggest that you start here:
https://django-storages.readthedocs.io/en/latest/backends/amazon-S3.html

Good luck,

Michal
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[Akash Purandare]

Thank you for the fast reply.

However the issue is not with Whitenoise. Whitenoise can be used to serve static files, yes. But how do I use it to serve media assets in the project?

On Monday, October 22, 2018 at 9:11:02 PM UTC+5:30, Andrew Pinkham wrote:

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/django-assets
http://whitenoise.evans.io/en/stable/django.html

[Andrew Pinkham]

On Oct 22, 2018, at 11:53, Akash Purandare <akash...@gmail.com> wrote:
> However the issue is not with Whitenoise. Whitenoise can be used to serve static files, yes. But how do I use it to serve media assets in the project?

Sorry, missed the media part.

Michal is right, you will need to install and configure django-storages for S3.

https://django-storages.readthedocs.io/en/latest/backends/amazon-S3.html

Related:
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.1/ref/settings/#media-root
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.1/ref/settings/#media-url

This tutorial may be useful (Updated in 2017):

https://www.caktusgroup.com/blog/2014/11/10/Using-Amazon-S3-to-store-your-Django-sites-static-and-media-files/

Andrew
https://jambonsw.com
https://django-unleashed.com