Django amazon s3 SuspiciousOperation - django

Question

So when i try accessing a certain image on S3 from my browser everything works fine. But when python is doing it i get a SuspiciousOperation error.
My static folder is public on S3 so i really have no idea where this is coming from.
Publication.objects.get(id=4039).cover.url
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<console>", line 1, in <module>
File "/home/vagrant/.pyenv/versions/blook/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/models/fields/files.py", line 64, in _get_url
return self.storage.url(self.name)
File "/home/vagrant/.pyenv/versions/blook/lib/python2.7/site-packages/queued_storage/backends.py", line 291, in url
return self.get_storage(name).url(name)
File "/home/vagrant/.pyenv/versions/blook/lib/python2.7/site-packages/queued_storage/backends.py", line 115, in get_storage
elif cache_result is None and self.remote.exists(name):
File "/home/vagrant/.pyenv/versions/blook/lib/python2.7/site-packages/storages/backends/s3boto.py", line 410, in exists
name = self._normalize_name(self._clean_name(name))
File "/home/vagrant/.pyenv/versions/blook/lib/python2.7/site-packages/storages/backends/s3boto.py", line 341, in _normalize_name
name)
SuspiciousOperation: Attempted access to 'http:/s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/xpto/static/images/default-image.png' denied.
My settings:
AWS_S3_SECURE_URLS = True # use http instead of https
S3_URL = 'http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/%s' % AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME
MEDIA_ROOT = 'media/'
STATIC_ROOT = '/static/'
STATIC_URL = S3_URL + STATIC_ROOT
MEDIA_URL = S3_URL + '/' + MEDIA_ROOT
For now i can work around it, but that is not a long term solution. any ideas?

Answer 1

Danigosa's answer in this thread is the answer:
django-storages and amazon s3 - suspiciousoperation
Create a special storage class as outlined in this post:
Using Amazon S3 to store your Django sites static and media files.
Then override _normalize_name like this:
from django.conf import settings
from storages.backends.s3boto3 import S3Boto3Storage
class StaticStorage(S3Boto3Storage):
location = settings.STATICFILES_LOCATION
def _clean_name(self, name):
return name
def _normalize_name(self, name):
if not name.endswith('/'):
name += "/"
name = self.location + name
return name
class MediaStorage(S3Boto3Storage):
location = settings.MEDIAFILES_LOCATION
def _clean_name(self, name):
return name
def _normalize_name(self, name):
if not name.endswith('/'):
name += "/"
name = self.location + name
return name
Finally - (on Python 3 at least) DON'T use
{% load static from staticfiles %}
in your templates.
Stick with:
{% load static %}

Answer 2

I recently faced the same issue. Tried all the available solutions. Realised that the issue was with the '/' that I had added while calling static files. Like this, "{% static '/path/to/static/file' %}", changed this to "{% static 'path/to/static/file' %}"