Using Django + easy-thumbnails/sorl-thumbnail on Elastic Beanstalk

Question

I'm having some issues using Django and easy_thumbnails on Elastic Beanstalk and I'm not really sure what's going wrong... Here's the problem:

I'm using easy_thumbnails to do my thumbnailing in the template. I like the flexibility this gives me, so I'd rather not do the thumbnailing in the model. When I upload an image it's stored in the database fine and is uploaded to and EBS volume. So far so good. My problem lies in that I can't thumbnail any images. If I turn on thumbnail debug it seems that easy_thumbnails isn't reading/finding the image. I suspect this problem may have something to do with my media url settings, but I'm at quite a loss as to what to change.

Has anyone else had experience with either sorl_thumbnail or easy_thumbnails? I'd really appreciate any guidence. On my local development server my thumbnails work perfectly fine.

Answer 1

Easy-thumbnails has no easy support for AmazonS3, you can apply this setup to make it work http://gibuloto.logdown.com/posts/99941-easy-thumbnails-with-amazon-s3

As mentioned here: Django-Storages + Easy_Thumbnails: [Errno 30] Read-only file system