Private Files cannot be accessed

[dalelantofindshare]

Hello!
Thank you for this tut. I only have one issue, its even if I create my superuser account and log in, I still cannot view the private files. Is there any kind of solution here? Thanks

[weelng]

Hi, not sure if you had resolve your issue however I am dropping by with an answer that I know of:
in your storage_backends.py, add the following code, querystring_auth = True and it should instantaneously turn the direct URLs into signed URLs from S3.

Eg

class PrivateMediaStorage(S3Boto3Storage):
    location = settings.AWS_PRIVATE_MEDIA_LOCATION
    default_acl = "private"
    file_overwrite = False
    custom_domain = False
    querystring_auth = True