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In chrome, go to AWS Console & navigate to S3 section of your dashboard
Under Storage & Content Delivery click create bucket
Give the bucket a name & select the Oregon region
Open the bucket you created
Create new directories for "admin" , "media" , & "static"
In the top right corner of the console click on your
click Continue to Security Credentials on prompt screen
On the left nav, click
Click Create New User (Make sure the Generate an access key for new user is checked)
Click Show user security credentials & write down your Access Key ID & your Secret Access Key
Click the Users tab & the username you just created
Scroll down to permissions & click Attach User Policy
With the "Select Policy Template" tab selected, scroll all the way down to S3
Select "Amazon S3 Full Access" policy & hit Apply Policy
Navigate back to your S3 dashboard & go into your bucket directory
Select the "Properties" tab on the right side
Click the Permissions
Click Add more permissions
Under Grantee select authenticated users & select what access users can have on the bucket (List, Upload/Delete, View Permissions, Edit Permissions)
Click SAVE
Inside your virtual environment
pip install Pillow
pip install Django-storages
pip install Django-boto
pip freeze > requirements.txt
'storages', INSTALLED APPS
from storages.backends.s3boto import S3BotoStorage
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID = 'YOUR_ACCESS_KEY_ID'
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY = 'YOUR_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY'
AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME = 'YOUR_BUCKET_NAME'
STATICFILES_STORAGE = 'YOUR_PROJECT .s3utils.StaticRootS3BotoStorage'
DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE = 'storages.backends.s3boto.S3BotoStorage'
S3_URL = '//{}.s3.amazonaws.com/'.format(AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME)
MEDIA_URL = S3_URL + "media/"
STATIC_URL = S3_URL + "static/"
ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX = STATIC_URL + "admin/"
python manage.py collectstatic
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This is a step-by-step guide I put together for setting up AWS's S3 to host static files / user-generated media for Python/Django applications
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