Change FileField to CharField or change file location to S3

Question

I currently have my files saved in my own server using FileField. And I want to make a migration for saving my files in S3. I was thinking in replace the FileField to a CharField keeping the file names and then, add the domain before it, to keep the track of the files. And then I'd migrate to S3.

Is there a simpler way to make this in Django? Is it even possible to change a FileField to a CharField and keep the files path as a string?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 24 '21 at 15:51

1

Hey I was succesful in leaving the FileFields as is and using django-storages. Then using the storage injected into the file field to make it use s3. I did not have to migrate the database for this. https://django-storages.readthedocs.io/en/latest/backends/amazon-S3.html

answered Nov 24 '21 at 15:51

Phteven

400
2
7

Looks pretty good to me. I'll give it a try – Jimmy A. León Nov 24 '21 at 15:54
We have out files into `media` folder. Do you know how to make something similar to the collectstatic for uploading the actual files in server to S3? – Jimmy A. León Nov 25 '21 at 12:52
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33774921/how-to-tell-django-collectstatic-to-use-amazon-s3 – Phteven Nov 26 '21 at 08:46

Change FileField to CharField or change file location to S3

1 Answers1