Django web application on azure deployment

I am trying to deploy my Django web application on azure. It is running fine with debug = true. but after deployment on azure app service with debug = False in settings.py, it is not able to load user uploaded media files in an iframe, saying URL not found. I am able to delete and move media files but i am not able to show using Iframe in HTML.

This is settings.py:

MEDIA_URL = '/media/'  # URL for accessing media files
MEDIA_ROOT = BASE_DIR / 'media'  # Directory where files will be uploaded to

this is urls.py:

urlpatterns+= static(settings.STATIC_URL, document_root=settings.STATIC_ROOT) + static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)

this is html: <iframe src="{{ MEDIA_URL }}{{ row.document.url }}" title="Document View" frameborder="0" width="100%" height="600px"></iframe>

I tried adding core headers, but it is not working.

I tried deploying a sample Python Django app to Azure with DEBUG = False set in the settings.py file.

After a successful deployment, my static files are not being served properly, as shown below.

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Django does not serve static or media files in a production environment. To serve both static and media files, you can use Azure Blob Storage. For serving only static files, use Whitenoise.

Thanks to @medium for the clear explanation on uploading Django static and media files to Azure Blob Storage.

I created a storage account in Azure, then went to Configuration and enabled Allow Blob anonymous access as shown below.

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I created two containers, media and static, with the Blob anonymous access level.

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I added the following lines of code to settings.py at the end.

 STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static')
AZURE_ACCOUNT_NAME = "<StorageAccountName>"
AZURE_ACCOUNT_KEY = "<StorageAccountKey>"
AZURE_CONNECTION_STRING = "<ConnectionString>"
AZURE_CONTAINER_STATIC = "static"
AZURE_CONTAINER_MEDIA = "media"
STATIC_ROOT = f"https://{AZURE_ACCOUNT_NAME}.blob.core.windows.net/{AZURE_CONTAINER_STATIC}/"
MEDIA_URL = f"https://{AZURE_ACCOUNT_NAME}.blob.core.windows.net/{AZURE_CONTAINER_MEDIA}/"
STORAGES = {
    "default": {
        "BACKEND": "storages.backends.azure_storage.AzureStorage",
        "OPTIONS": {
            "azure_container": AZURE_CONTAINER_MEDIA,
            "account_name": AZURE_ACCOUNT_NAME,
            "account_key": AZURE_ACCOUNT_KEY,
            "connection_string": AZURE_CONNECTION_STRING,
        },
    },
    "staticfiles": {
        "BACKEND": "storages.backends.azure_storage.AzureStorage",
        "OPTIONS": {
            "azure_container": AZURE_CONTAINER_STATIC,
            "account_name": AZURE_ACCOUNT_NAME,
            "account_key": AZURE_ACCOUNT_KEY,
            "connection_string": AZURE_CONNECTION_STRING,
        }
    }
}
DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD = 'django.db.models.BigAutoField'

requirements.txt:

Django
django-storages[azure]
azure-storage-blob

AZURE_ACCOUNT_NAME is the name of the storage account. You can find the connection string and account key in the Access keys section of the Storage Account.

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After making the above changes, I successfully served the static and media files after deployment.

Azure Output:

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For serving only static files, refer to this Stack Overflow thread.

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