How do I use Django, sorl-thumbnail, memcached, and S3 together?

Question

I\'ve got a project in which I need to start creating dynamically-resized thumbnails of user-uploaded images, where previously I\'d been generating some specifically sized ones.

Answer 1

You might want to look at Django-storages it was a nice AWS S3 that would fix the issue for you.Along with that also install boto, as django-storage has a dependency on boto.

Then you will have to add the following into your settings.py

import os

AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID = os.environ.get('AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID')
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY = os.environ.get('AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY')
AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME = '<YOUR BUCKET NAME>'

STATICFILES_STORAGE = 'storages.backends.s3boto.S3BotoStorage'
DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE = 'storages.backends.s3boto.S3BotoStorage'

STATIC_URL = 'http://' + AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME + '.s3.amazonaws.com/'
ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX = STATIC_URL + 'admin/'

Then your cache will be stored on AWS S3 itself.

I hope it helps

Note: for security reasons its a good idea to add your AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY as environment variables instead of just writing them down in setting.py directly.