How to serve static and media files for a django app through django-storages using CloudFront

This project is intended to demostrate the AWS CloudFront with the Django.

Setting up

Install python requirements

pip install -r requirements.txt

Making migration

python manage.py makemiragions
python manage.py migration

Check if its working

python manage.py runserver

This will run the code with debug mode enabled now we need to run the code with the aws cloudfront.

Assign the following values in the Setting file

AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME
STATIC_DISTRIBUTION_ID

After setting the AWS values make debug mode FALSE

DEBUG = false

Collect static files to s3

python manage.py collectstatic

Run the code in DEBUG mode FALSE

python manage.py runserver

To test the public and private media file storage

Got to http://localhost:8000/api/ The private files api is in http://localhost:8000/api/private_image The private files api is in http://localhost:8000/api/public_image