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docs/media_files_handling.md

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+# Files handling
+
+This document describes how files are handled in this appication.
+
+# Types of files
+
+static files: files that are not changed by the application, e.g. images, fonts, etc.¨
+
+### content documents:
+
+Files that belong to the content and are managed by the content editors in the CMS (pdf, excel, word, etc.)
+
+### user documents:
+
+Files that are uploaded by the users (pdf, etc.). Therefore not visible in the CMS.
+Images are handled seprately from documents since images require additional processing (resizing, cropping, etc.).
+Visible in the django admin.
+
+### content images:
+
+Images that belong to the content and are managed by the content editors in the CMS.
+
+### user images:
+
+Images that are uploaded by the users. Therefore not visible in the CMS. Visible in the django admin.
+
+## Static files
+
+These files are publicly served on S3.
+
+## Content documents
+
+These files are part of the content. Such as a pdf thas cointains additional information to a course.
+These files are not publicly available. The content files are uploaded by the editors in the wagtail cms.
+
+https://www.hacksoft.io/blog/direct-to-s3-file-upload-with-django
+
+Django handles the permissions to these files. Via a view django checks if the user has permissions to access the file,
+and gerates a temporary url that is valid for a limited time. Still the documents are served by django. This done for
+usability reasons. The user sees the url mydomain.com/media/documents/<document-id> and not a url to S3. Therefore the
+user can share the url with other users. (still they need to login and have the permissions to access the file)
+
+The downside of this is that the django server processes these files. (could be circumvented by django-sendfile).
+
+![](./assets/files-presign.png)
+
+- These Files are handled stored as wagtail documents. As a model and the file itself is stored in S3.
+
+### Frontend access to content documents
+
+For the frontend django generates a fixed url per file /media/documents/<document-id>
+
+When the frontend requests this file, django checks if the user has permissions to access the file.
+If so, django generates a temporary url that is valid for a limited time. Then sends a redirect to the frontend.
+
+In this waz the frontend does not need to know about the permissions. Content grapql can be cached if needed and urls
+can be shared by the users.
+
+content_documents
+user_documents
+
+public files
+
+## User documents
+
+- User uploaded files are stored in S3. but the permissions is handled by django. Same process as content files.
+
+Same process as content files. But the url is /media/user-uploads/<file-id>
+And the files are not managed by Wagtail. Due to another model, they are not visible to the user in the CMS.
+
+## Content images
+
+Content Images are served directly from S3. The permissions are handled by dja

server/lorenz.env

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 export DEBUG=True
 export ENABLE_SILKY=False
 export SECRET_KEY=FOOBAR
-export USE_AWS=False
+export USE_AWS=True
 export WAGTAILADMIN_BASE_URL=/
 export ALLOW_BETA_LOGIN=True
-export USE_404_FALLBACK_IMAGE=True
+export AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME=skillbox-files-preprod
-
+export AWS_REGION=eu-central-1
 #export THEME=my-kv
 #export APP_FLAVOR=my-kv