Installation ============ In your project's `settings.py` file, add `'dbfilestorage'` to your `INSTALLED_APPS`: .. code:: python INSTALLED_APPS = ( ... 'dbfilestorage' ) Next, if you want to set this globally, set the setting: .. code:: python DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE='dbfilestorage.storage.DBFileStorage' Or you can set it individually on a field: `Django Docs `_ .. code:: python from dbfilestorage.storage import DBFileStorage class SomeClass(models.Model): file = models.FileField(upload_to=u'anywhere', storage=DBFileStorage())