Is the auto generated photologue image urls overridable?

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I have two separate servers. One is hosting django instance on "www.example.com", the other is serving static files on "static.example.com". In django settings, MEDIA_URL points to "static.example.com". Therefore my photologue is using the "static.example.com" domain.

I want to use "www.example.com" for my photologue, but I can't figure out how I can override the MEDIA_URL setting for the photologue. Do you know any way to solve this?

Note: Django is serving over apache, Static files hosted on AWS (Amazon Web Service). I just want to change only photologue domain. Other static files must stay where they are.

I don't get what you exactly mean. Can you tell more descriptive? — Sencer H., Jun 05 '12 at 10:11
We genrally serve static contents like images via apache and not via django — Vivek S, Jun 05 '12 at 10:45
I added a note for that into my question :) I was served static files with apache where django living. Afterwards I moved static files to Amazon AWS for reducing traffic on project server. — Sencer H., Jun 05 '12 at 10:49

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 12 '12 at 10:30

Unfortunately Photologue doesn't provide a setting for this.

But looking at the code I found a workaround that should do the trick. I assume you use the get_SIZE_url() methods. All of those methods call self.cache_url(). So, you could create a subclass of ImageModel (or Photo if you want to have the functionality that comes with it) which overrides this method.

from photologue.models import ImageModel  # or Photo

class LocalPhoto(ImageModel):   # or Photo

    def cache_url(self):
        local_path = os.path.dirname(self.image.url)[7:].split('/', 1)[1]
        return '/%s/%s' % (local_path, 'cache')

If you extended Photo you already have a working get_absolute_url() otherwise an implementation is straight forward.

Django admin uses get_admin_thumbnail_url() so if you define a PhotoSize with name 'admin_thumbnail' the above method should work there too.

Effects have a method sample_url() used to show the effect on a sample image in Django admin. This method is based on MEDIA_URL so it won't work. Unfortunately in this case you cannot simply override this method. But since these images won't change you could upload them to AWS.

Is the auto generated photologue image urls overridable?

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