I am currently setting up Arches in Azure and I encountered the following 
problem:


Uploaded static files where the original folder contains a special 
character, e.g. '@Mapbox/', results in those folders being uploaded without 
the special characters, e.g. 'Mapbox/'.


I use this setting:
STATICFILES_STORAGE = 'storages.backends.azure_storage.AzureStorage'


And added this to my requirements.txt:
django-storages[azure]==1.7.1


I noticed that Joel steered clear of django-storages because it had nog 
been updated at that time, but the projects seems to be alive and kicking 
at the moment:
https://github.com/jschneier/django-storages


Thanks!
Vincent


On Thursday, 20 July 2017 09:39:11 UTC+2, Joel Aldor wrote:
>
> Another update: if you're using Azure storage, make sure you do this 
> following install on your virtual environment:
>
> pip install azure-storage==0.20.0
>
>
> On Sunday, March 19, 2017 at 3:33:16 PM UTC+8, Joel Aldor wrote:
>>
>> Good day,
>>
>> I will need to update this migration guide to add an important step. 
>> Between steps #7 and #8, you need to install the Azure packages in order 
>> for Arches to bind properly to your storage container.
>>
>> sudo pip install azure azure-storage azure-servicebus azure-mgmt 
>> azure-servicemanagement-legacy
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Joel
>>
>> On Tuesday, February 21, 2017 at 3:00:05 PM UTC+8, Joel Aldor wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi guys!
>>>
>>> If you plan to migrate from AWS to Microsoft Azure, I'm sharing to you 
>>> these steps which I created on my own. I must admit the whole migration was 
>>> pretty hard, since AWS doesn't allow you to export your Linux EC2 instances 
>>> to another cloud provider. But after weeks of trial and error, and lots of 
>>> research, I'm finally able to migrate Arches completely. :)
>>>
>>> These steps will work, assuming your Arches is installed on an Ubuntu 
>>> server running on an EC2 instance, and you're using S3 for your image and 
>>> file storage.
>>>
>>> 1.) Launch an Ubuntu 14.04 LTS virtual machine on your Azure portal. 
>>> Make sure your virtual machine has the same security group settings that 
>>> you have on your AWS EC2 instance.
>>>
>>> 2.) Log in to your Ubuntu server, then change your root password 
>>> sudo passwd root
>>>
>>> To allow remote login using root, you also need to edit the file 
>>> /etc/ssh/sshd_config, and comment out the following line:
>>> PermitRootLogin without-password 
>>>
>>> Just below it, add the following line:
>>> PermitRootLogin yes 
>>>
>>> Save the file, then restart SSH:
>>> service ssh restart
>>>
>>> *Note: Take note of your root password, because you will need it on step 
>>> #6 as you go through the rsync shell script.*
>>>
>>> 3.) Create an Azure storage account, then launch an Azure storage 
>>> container. Once you created the container, get the Azure container name and 
>>> access key, which you will use on step #5.
>>>
>>> 4.) Get your AWS Access Key ID and Secret Access Key from your AWS 
>>> Console's IAM, which you will use on step #5.
>>>
>>> 5.) Migrate your AWS S3 bucket to the new Azure storage container using 
>>> Flexify.io. Create a free account on Flexify, then launch a migration 
>>> task. I was able to migrate all my files totalling 6.5GB in just about 20 
>>> minutes.
>>>
>>> 6.) Start the server migration process from AWS EC2 to Azure using a 
>>> custom rsync shell script. Follow the pretty straightforward steps from 
>>> this link here: https://cloudnull.io/2012/07/cloud-server-migration (Go 
>>> to the section that says *Migrate using RSYNC The Easy Way *and follow 
>>> the steps there). After the migration, the new server will automatically 
>>> reboot itself.
>>>
>>> *Note: the rsync shell script uses Rackspace directory defaults, but it 
>>> worked pretty fine on me, so just hit ENTER to continue when you're 
>>> prompted to apply the default*
>>>
>>> 7.) Login to the new server, then restart Elasticsearch and Apache. By 
>>> this point, your new server is now hosting Arches, and you can already open 
>>> Arches on your browser. However it's still pointing to the old S3 bucket.
>>>
>>> 8.) Install the django-storages-redux by following the steps from here: 
>>> https://github.com/schumannd/django-storages. This is a forked 
>>> django-storages package, because the original django-storages has seen no 
>>> commit applied since March 2014, and there were errors on the AzureStorage 
>>> library.
>>>
>>> 9.) Comment out the AWS variables on settings.py and instead add these 
>>> variables:
>>>
>>> DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE = 'storages.backends.azure_storage.AzureStorage'
>>> AZURE_ACCOUNT_NAME = '<your Azure account name>'
>>> AZURE_ACCOUNT_KEY = '<your Azure access key>'
>>> AZURE_CONTAINER = '<your container name>'
>>> MEDIA_URL = '<the URL of your Azure container, which is normally 
>>> https://your_azure_account_name.blob.core.windows.net/your_azure_container
>>> >'
>>>
>>> 10.) Save your settings.py file, then restart your Apache server. 
>>>
>>> *And you're done! *You can now point your domain to the new Azure 
>>> virtual machine and start decommissioning your AWS resources.
>>>
>>> If there's any problem you're encountering, please let me know here and 
>>> I'd be happy to help!
>>>
>>> Special thanks to Adam Cox for helping me out on some parts of this 
>>> migration process!
>>>
>>> Regards, 
>>>
>>> Joel
>>>
>>

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