John's AWS S3 / Django Cheat Sheet

AWS.AMAZON.COM/console

• 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 username, then security credentials
• click Continue to Security Credentials on prompt screen
• On the left nav, click User
• 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

settings.py

• Add 'storages', to the bottom of your installed apps INSTALLED APPS

create file s3utils.py (same directory as settings.py)

• from storages.backends.s3boto import S3BotoStorage
  StaticRootS3BotoStorage = lambda: S3BotoStorage(location='static')

local_settings.py

• 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/"

Run collectstatic

• python manage.py collectstatic