How to set-up a Django project with django-storages and Amazon S3, but with different folders for static files and media files?

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I'm configuring a Django project that were using the server filesystem for storing the apps static files (`STATIC_ROOT`) and user uploaded files (`MEDIA_ROOT`). I need now to host all that content on Amazon's S3, so I have created a bucket for this. Using `django-storages` with the `boto` storage backend, I managed to upload collected statics to the S3 bucket: ``` MEDIA_ROOT = '/media/' STATIC_ROOT = '/static/' DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE = 'storages.backends.s3boto.S3BotoStorage' AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID = 'KEY_ID...' AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY = 'ACCESS_KEY...' AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME = 'bucket-name' STATICFILES_STORAGE = 'storages.backends.s3boto.S3BotoStorage' ``` Then, I got a problem: the `MEDIA_ROOT` and `STATIC_ROOT` are not used within the bucket, so the bucket root contains both the static files and user uploaded paths. So then I could set: ``` S3_URL = 'http://s3.amazonaws.com/%s' % AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME STATIC_URL = S3_URL + STATIC_ROOT MEDIA_URL = 'S3_URL + MEDIA_ROOT ``` And use those se…

Accepted Answer

I think the following should work, and be simpler than Mandx's method, although it's very similar:

Create a `s3utils.py` file:

```
from storages.backends.s3boto import S3BotoStorage

StaticRootS3BotoStorage = lambda: S3BotoStorage(location='static')
MediaRootS3BotoStorage  = lambda: S3BotoStorage(location='media')
```

Then in your `settings.py`:

```
DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE = 'myproject.s3utils.MediaRootS3BotoStorage'
STATICFILES_STORAGE = 'myproject.s3utils.StaticRootS3BotoStorage'
```

A different but related example (that I've actually tested) can be seen in the two `example_` files here.

How to set-up a Django project with django-storages and Amazon S3, but with different folders for static files and media files?

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