Django Download a File

Django download a file

You missed underscore in argument document_root. But it's bad idea to use serve in production. Use something like this instead:

import os
from django.conf import settings
from django.http import HttpResponse, Http404

def download(request, path):
    file_path = os.path.join(settings.MEDIA_ROOT, path)
    if os.path.exists(file_path):
        with open(file_path, 'rb') as fh:
            response = HttpResponse(fh.read(), content_type="application/vnd.ms-excel")
            response['Content-Disposition'] = 'inline; filename=' + os.path.basename(file_path)
            return response
    raise Http404

Django view to download a file from server

In order to download a file, you need to return a FileResponse to the user. However, calling an external function that returns a FileResponse won't work because you're not actually returning the FileResponse to the user, in your case the user only receives the render(request, 'generate_mo.html', {'misses':misses,}) so that won't download the files.

You can't download several files one after the others, so I suggest putting them all in a .zip or .tar file so that you can download them as only one file, and only need to return one FileResponse.

As you also need to render your template, what you can do is redirect to your download_mo view on template loading so that your file is downloaded while your template is rendered.

Now, for your download_mo view, just replace your HttpResponse with a FileResponse :

from django.http import FileResponse
def download_mo(request,file):
    path_to_file = os.path.realpath(file)
    response = FileResponse(open(path_to_file, 'rb'))
    file_name = file[5:]
    response['Content-Disposition'] = 'inline; filename=' + file_name
    return response

Download a file with Django

• You need to read that file.
• Serve it using HttpResponse along with proper content type.

Here's some sample code:

content = open("uploads/something.txt").read()
return HttpResponse(content, content_type='text/plain')

This should serve a text file.

But as you described, on some browser, it will not ask to download the file, rather, it would show it in the browser. If you want to show a download prompt, use this:

response = HttpResponse(open("uploads/something.txt", 'rb').read())
response['Content-Type'] = 'text/plain'
response['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename=DownloadedText.txt'
return response

However, please note that it might be a better idea to serve static contents or uploaded files via nginx or the reverse proxy of your choice. Sending large files through Django might not be the most optimum way of doing that.

How to download file using django as backend and nginx

i have found another way, there is a library which makes everything alot easier named as django_downloadview.

Here is the link to library https://pypi.org/project/django-downloadview/
and here is the link to documentations https://django-downloadview.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

It solved the problem for me now for creating a download link with an id to download file from storage lets see what happens in the future.

Download file in Nginx-Django with X-Accel-Redirect

The problem was that the nginx did not expect to read files from the provided directory. When this directory was changed to /var/wwww, it worked as expected.

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