Serving external files with Django

[Priyesh Raj]

Hi,

I need to serve content of external files on user action (Click on URL). The files are PDF and are not part of media or static files.

How can I serve them in Django? Is there any built in way to handle it?

Thanks

[Constantine Covtushenko]

Hi Priyesh,

You can start from managing files documentation of Django.

Hope that helps

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[Brian Witte]

Hi Priyesh,

Do you know what volume of files you expect to serve?  The answer to this question will be different depending on where the files are hosted.  If you expect a low volume of downloads, it might be easiest to just host the files on dropbox or even served from your own db.  If you expect a lot of downloads, a cloud-based solution is probably a better option. The django-boto-s3 package has good documentation for using Amazon's cloud storage: http://django-storages.readthedocs.io/en/latest/backends/amazon-S3.html

[Antonis Christofides]

Hello,

(This is probably not what you mean, but PDF files can perfectly be considered to be "media files". The term "media" is a bit suboptimal—in Django parlance it refers to any files that are uploaded by the user or anyway are conceptually part of the database.)

If what you want to do is serve files through Django instead of directly through the web server (the common use case for this is when you want to check permissions before allowing downloads), check these links:

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8600843/serving-large-files-with-high-loads-in-django (this is a bit old, so beware of this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35817597/django-core-servers-basehttp-filewrapper-disappears-in-django-1-9)

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1156246/having-django-serve-downloadable-files

Regards,

Antonis

Antonis Christofides
http://djangodeployment.com

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