Django Admin S3 Private Media Files

Question

When using the private media django-storages class below. When I view the uploaded file in the admin it does not generate the URL Query String Authorization parameters.

from django.conf import settings
from storages.backends.s3boto3 import S3Boto3Storage


class PrivateMediaRootTenantedS3Boto3Storage(S3Boto3Storage):
    auto_create_bucket = True
    default_acl = "private"
    file_overwrite = False
    custom_domain = False

Answer 1

The issue was django-cookiecutter sets the AWS_QUERYSTRING_AUTH value to False when its default is True.

Additional reference about the custom_domain variable needing to be False can be found in this question and answer.