[FIXED] Django uploading images

Issue

I want to upload images in the django admin interface. During development everything works fine but when I put the files on my server it doesn't work. I have two different paths on my Server. One where I put all my source files and one where I put all the static files.

Path for source files: /htdocs/files/project/

Path for static files: /htdocs/html/project/

If I upload an image, then it is saved in /htdocs/files/project/media/. But I want to save it in /htdocs/html/project/. How can I change the path?

Here are my settings:

STATIC_URL = '/static/'

MEDIA_URL = '/media/'

MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'media')

STATICFILES_DIRS = (
    os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static'),
    '/var/www/ssd1257/htdocs/html/'
) 

And here is my model:

class News(models.Model):
    title = models.CharField(max_length=200, null=False)
    date = models.DateField(null=False, default=datetime.now)
    text = models.TextField(null=False, blank=True)
    image = models.ImageField(upload_to="./news/")

Solution

The uploaded files are saved normally in the following path MEDIA_URL + the path specified in “upload_to” attribute in the model class

So in your case, MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'media') = “/htdocs/files/project/media” Django will create the path if it doesn’t exits

But I didn’t get the dot in-frontront of ‘upload_to’ to path(“./news/“)

So if you want to change the path where uploaded files are stored, simply change the MEDIA_ROOT Note, please provide the absolute full path

I guess it will be MEDIA_ROOT = '/var/www/ssd1257/htdocs/html/project'

Also, its better to rename the uploaded files before saving to avoid file_name conflicts

def get_news_image_path(instance, filename):
   path_first_component = ‘news/‘
   ext = filename.split('.')[-1]
   timestamp = millis = int(round(time.time() * 1000))
   file_name = ‘news_’ + str(instance.id) + str('_logo_image_') + timestamp + str('.') + ext
   full_path = path_first_component + file_name
   return full_path

class News(models.Model):
    title = models.CharField(max_length=200, null=False)
    date = models.DateField(null=False, default=datetime.now)
    text = models.TextField(null=False, blank=True)
    image = models.ImageField(upload_to=get_news_image_path)

Now the uploaded files will be saved in '/var/www/ssd1257/htdocs/html/project/news’

You are Done

In addition, also set appropriate MEDIA_URL

Ex: MEDIA_URL = “media So when generated URL for the upload images will be MEDIA_URL + upload_to path

Also, configure the web server to serve these URLs from appropriate locations

Answered By - Iyvin Jose