Separate media settings for each app in django

Question

I am working on building a django based blog-like site, it currently has one app. It contains a media folder which contains the images uploaded by the user. However, the MEDIA_URL and MEDIA_ROOT are specified in the main settings.py file.

But in the future, there will be more apps containing more media, thus I want separate MEDIA_URL(s) and settings for each app.

I tried writing the MEDIA_ROOT and MEDIA_URL separately in the apps.py file, but removing this from the main settings.py file results in an error.

I also tried using FileSystemStorage, but even this needed me to have a MEDIA_URLS in the settings.py file.

Please let me know if you need any more details. Any help is appreciated, thanks.

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 29 '20 at 14:05

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Maybe, you can use different folders inside MEDIA_ROOT for different models. For example:

class MyModel(models.Model):
    file = models.FileField(upload_to='my_model')

When you upload a new file via MyModel admin, in MEDIA folder a folder with the name my_model will be created and the uploaded file will be there.

answered Mar 29 '20 at 14:05

shoytov

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Thanks for the method! Is this the standard method used in professional sites? – Mar 29 '20 at 14:16
I don’t know how others do it, but this is my method – shoytov Mar 29 '20 at 14:36

Separate media settings for each app in django

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