django-cloudistatic 0.1.dev1

A Django app to serve staticfiles using cloudinary

django-cloudistatic is a Django app to upload your staticfiles to Cloudinary and serve from there. Cloudinary serves files using CDN, which will reduce the load on django server and pages will load faster.

Quick start

1. Add “djangocloudistatic” to your INSTALLED_APPS setting like this:

   INSTALLED_APPS = [
       ...
       'djangocloudistatic',
   ]

2. Declare the following settings variables (you will get them from Cloudinary dashboard)

   CLOUDI_NAME = <Cloud name>
   CLOUDI_API_KEY = <API Key>
   CLOUDI_API_SECRET = <API Secret>

3. Include STATICFILES_DIRS and STATIC_ROOT in settings.py file (Should be included before STATIC_URL) of your project. You may refer to https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.2/howto/static-files/ for details.

4. Modify the STATIC_URL like this:

   STATIC_URL=f'https://res.cloudinary.com/{CLOUDI_NAME}/raw/upload/v1/{STATIC_ROOT}/'

5. Now run python manage.py collectstatic command to collect all staticfiles to STATIC_ROOT of your project.

6. Finally, run python manage.py cloudistatic to upload staticfiles to Cloudinary. Wait for a few minutes and your staticfiles will be ready to be served from there. If you want to delete your local STATIC_ROOT (staticfiles will not be served from here now) after uploading to cloud, then you should run python manage.py cloudistatic --deletelocal instead of python manage.py cloudistatic.