Learn how to configure Django for use with Filebase
What is Django?
Django is a Python web framework designed for rapid, highly-scalable development and deployment of web applications. Django offers a clean, pragmatic and secure design that enables developers to create web apps quickly and efficiently. Django is free and open source.
Read below to learn how to create a basic Django web app that communicates with your Filebase account and Filebase buckets.
Prerequisites:
This guide was written using Ubuntu 20.04. Commands may vary depending on your operating system.
This guide shows a sample configuration and how to connect a Django application to Filebase. Filebase is unable to provide debugging for custom applications due to their individualized nature.
1. Install Django with the following command:
pip install django
2. Confirm the Django installation with the following command:
django-admin
This command will return a list of django core commands.
3. Create a new Django project with the following command:
django-admin startproject projectname
This command will create a Django project with the base level framework.
4. Navigate to the location of the manage.py file inside your project.
Your project’s directory will be a sub directory of where you ran the startproject command. In this example, the project is located at /home/filebase/testproject.
5. Run the following command to start the Django server:
python3 manage.py runserver
6. In a web browser, navigate to your Django server running at http://127.0.0.1:8000.
You should see the following webpage:
7. Now you need to connect the Django project to Filebase.
Start by installing django-storages with the following command:
pip install django-storages
8. Next, install the boto3 library with the following command:
pip install boto3
9. Edit the settings.py file to include “storages” under the INSTALLED_APPS:
10. Configure the settings.py file to reflect your Filebase credentials and bucket information.
Add the following lines to the settings.py file, replacing values as necessary to match your configuration:
11. Run the following command to pull the static objects from your Filebase bucket:
python3 manage.py collectstatic
When prompted, enter ‘yes’. The output should resemble the following:
12. In your Filebase bucket there will be a new folder titled ‘Static’ that contains your Django project files.
From here, you can interact with the Filebase bucket from within your Django project.
