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Unable to make a post with a short video(60 seconds) in DO app

Hi, there

I have enabled video uploads in my Django social media project. It works fine in my local computer, and when I pushed the refactored code to Digital Ocean app, the video uploads give me a 500 error. It only happens with the video uploads, but when I upload the video from Django admin I don’t get an an error and I can see it in the spaces bucket as well as the browser/template and I can play it.

I suspect error is server side.

Here is my settings.py please check it for me do I need to do something special for the video upload?

There is a lot of commented out code please ignore that:

# MEDIA_URL = '/media/'
# MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'media')


# STATICFILES_DIRS = [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'soccerfamly/static')]

# Static files (CSS, JavaScript, images)
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static_root')

# DigitalOcean Spaces configuration for static and media files
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID = config('AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID')
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY = config('AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY')
AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME = 'spportsfamly-images'
AWS_S3_ENDPOINT_URL = 'https://spportsfamly-images.sfo3.digitaloceanspaces.com'
AWS_LOCATION = ''

AWS_S3_OBJECT_PARAMETERS = {
    'CacheControl': 'max-age=86400',
}
AWS_DEFAULT_ACL = 'public-read'
AWS_QUERYSTRING_AUTH = False

# Static files storage configuration
STATIC_URL = f'https://{AWS_S3_ENDPOINT_URL}/{AWS_LOCATION}/'
STATICFILES_STORAGE = 'storages.backends.s3boto3.S3Boto3Storage'

# Media files storage configuration
MEDIA_URL = f'https://{AWS_S3_ENDPOINT_URL}/{AWS_LOCATION}/media/'
DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE = 'storages.backends.s3boto3.S3Boto3Storage'

# Other settings
DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD = 'django.db.models.BigAutoField'

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KFSys
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January 21, 2024

Heya @chrismlalazi,

It’s going to be really hard to tell without actual logs, the logs should provide you with a detailed error.

Check this article here:

https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform/how-to/view-logs/

Once you know the exact error it should be easier to troubleshoot.

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