Django storages: Import Error - no module named storages

Question

I'm trying to use Django's storages backend (for BotoS3)

settings.py:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
...
'storages',
...
)

as shown in http://django-storages.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html.

and, requirements.txt:

django-storages==1.1.8

But am getting the error:

django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: ImportError storages: No module named storages

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

There is a possibility that you are in a virtualenv and installing the package outside the virtualenv into the default python installation. Make sure you are not doing that.

Answer 2

If you are experiencing this error even though you've included 'storages' in your INSTALLLED_APPS and django-storages in your requirements.txt, check your STATICFILES_STORAGE variable.

For previous versions of django-storages, this should be set as:

STATICFILES_STORAGE = 'storages.backends.s3boto.S3BotoStorage'

For newer versions of django-storages, the package uses boto3 instead of boto and this variable should be set as:

STATICFILES_STORAGE = 'storages.backends.s3boto3.S3Boto3Storage'

If you're using either version and you've configured your DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting incorrectly, you'll receive an import error.

The correct settings can be found in the django-storages docs

Answer 3

I had the same problem. In my case I solved the problem with

pip install django-storages

Collecting django-storages
  Downloading django_storages-1.6.5-py2.py3-none-any.whl (47kB)
    100% |################################| 51kB 358kB/s
Installing collected packages: django-storages
Successfully installed django-storages-1.6.5

It was executed inside my virtual environment.

Answer 4

I had installed it within virtual env and was running the exact same issue. My problem was that I forgot to update my requirements.txt. So make you update that file!