Serving media files in a remote server and app in another server in django

Question

How can I serve or upload (uploading files from the website) media files to a remote server. One way would be ssh using fabric. But Using it I can transfer the files from one host to the remote host in case of static files (as in documentation). But is it possible that, whenever a user uploads a file in the website, it goes directly to the remote server

e.g. instead of file going to

MEDIA_ROOT = '/usr/files/'

on the same server, it will go to folder located in remote server.

Answer 1

Have you tried this solution:

https://github.com/aaugustin/django-resto

it has three modes of working according to the docs:

HybridStorage

With this backend, django-resto will run all file storage operations on MEDIA_ROOT first, then replicate them to the media servers.

AsyncStorage

With this backend, django-resto will run all file storage operations on MEDIA_ROOT and lanch their replication to the media servers in the background. See Asynchronous operation.

DistributedStorage

With this backend, django-resto will only store the files on the media servers. See Low concurrency situations.

And the servers that listen for incoming content can be a lighthttp implementation on nginx, as the docs recommend:

Here is an example of lighttpd config:

server.modules += ( "mod_webdav", ) $HTTP["remoteip"] ~= "^192.168.0.[0-9]+$" { "webdav.activate = "enable" }

Here is an example of nginx config, assuming the server was compiled --with-http_dav_module:

 server {
     listen 192.168.0.10;
     location / {
         root /var/www/media;
         dav_methods PUT DELETE;
         create_full_put_path on;
         dav_access user:rw group:r all:r;
         allow 192.168.0.1/24;
         deny all;
     } 
  }

Hope this solves your issue.