How to serve media files for Django website

[Fabius]

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?

 

[Fabius]

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?

 

[Fabius]

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:

<IfModule mod_headers.c>  
    Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin "https://www.example.org"
</IfModule>

 

[cPRex]

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!

 

[MrAli]

you can use:

whitenoise
( serve its own static files locally )

or

django-storages

Support for many storage backends in Django

pypi.org

serve static files from other service like:

• Amazon S3
• Apache Libcloud
• Azure Storage
• Digital Ocean
• Dropbox
• FTP
• Google Cloud Storage
• SFTP