Django Azure upload file to blob storage

Question

I\'ve got an application that needs to upload a file to an Azure Blob Storage container. I\'ve been trying for a very long time and followed every tutorial to no avail.

Answer 1

Figured out the problem. I followed a tutorial for Amazon S3 and then applied the exact same principals to the Azure scenario. After all, I'm sure the developer of this class wanted to keep everything uniform.

mysite/custom_azure.py <-- just put it in the same folder as your settings.py file

from storages.backends.azure_storage import AzureStorage

class AzureMediaStorage(AzureStorage):
    location = 'media'
    file_overwrite = False

mysite/settings.py

STATICFILES_DIRS = [
    os.path.join(BASE_DIR, '/static'),
]

AZURE_ACCOUNT_NAME = ''
AZURE_ACCOUNT_KEY = ''
AZURE_CUSTOM_DOMAIN = f'{AZURE_ACCOUNT_NAME}.blob.core.windows.net'
AZURE_LOCATION = ''
AZURE_CONTAINER = ''

STATIC_LOCATION = 'static'
STATIC_URL = f'https://{AZURE_CUSTOM_DOMAIN}/{STATIC_LOCATION}/'

STATICFILES_STORAGE = 'storages.backends.azure_storage.AzureStorage'
DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE = 'mysite.custom_azure.AzureMediaStorage'

Also, note that if you have the following in your mysite/urls.py from some other tutorial or something:

if settings.DEBUG:
    urlpatterns += static(settings.STATIC_URL, document_root=settings.STATIC_ROOT)
    urlpatterns += static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)

you need to remove the MEDIA line:

if settings.DEBUG:
    urlpatterns += static(settings.STATIC_URL, document_root=settings.STATIC_ROOT)

from the model, remove any reference to 'storage' and just leave the 'upload_to' option like this:

thumbnail = models.ImageField(default='default.jpg', upload_to='video_thumbs')

it all just worked.

don't for get to do the following to check yourself:

python3 manage.py collectstatic

hope this helps other people!!!