How to serve media files for Django website

Fabius

• May 13, 2022 09:57

I have a Django website set up on cPanel that is working fine - pages are served on my domain www.example.org
Any images etc uploaded through Django's admin are saved to a directory I created at ~/example-org-media/
. That's good, but I'm not sure how to serve those images. For example, an image at ~/example-org-media/hello.jpg
should be visible if I visit www.example.org/media/hello.jpg
in a browser. At the moment it's a 404. How do I serve those images as part of my domain, that's otherwise serving a Django/python app?

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  Fabius

  • May 13, 2022 17:03

  I suppose the files don't even have to be in that folder - I could put them anywhere. So the question is: Given the site is a python site served with passenger_wsgi.py, how do I also serve a folder full of images etc?

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  Fabius

  • May 16, 2022 16:05

  In the end I gave up on doing it that way, and instead set up a new Subdomain media.example.org
  for serving the media files, from a directory at ~/media.example.org/
  . I then put this in my Django settings file: MEDIA_ROOT = "/home/USERNAME/media.example.org/" MEDIA_URL = "https://media.example.org/"
  I added a .htaccess file in that directory containing this: Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin "https://www.example.org"
  

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • May 17, 2022 16:49

  I'm glad you were able to come up with a good workaround. cPanel support is very limited on the help we can provide for these type of applications, as outlined in the top of the documentation here: How to Install a Python WSGI Application | cPanel & WHM Documentation but I'm glad you found something that works for you!

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  MrAli

  • September 02, 2022 21:40

  you can use: whitenoise ( serve its own static files locally ) or Amazon S3

  Azure Storage

  Dropbox

  Google Cloud Storage

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