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Nuno_147
Nuno_147

Reputation: 2913

upload via admin using FileField in django

I have something very weird. I am on win7 Django 1.4. I have the following media_root/url settings :

MEDIA_ROOT = 'c:\project\uploads'
MEDIA_URL = '/media/'

My url.py includes :

    urlpatterns += patterns('', 
    (r'^media/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve', { 
    'document_root': settings.MEDIA_ROOT}))

I have a model with the the field :

    file = models.FileField(upload_to=MEDIA_ROOT, blank = True)

Now, I am uploading the file via the admin site, the file is uploaded successfully. however , the when accessing the file via the admin I see the link to the file is :

http://127.0.0.1:8000/media/c:\project\uploads\[filename]

I have no clue what I am doing wrong.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2742

Answers (1)

Hedde van der Heide
Hedde van der Heide

Reputation: 22449

I think your model is wrong:

file = models.FileField(upload_to=MEDIA_ROOT, blank = True)

upload_to expects a relative path which is added to the MEDIA_ROOT, so now it expects the file to be at MEDIA_ROOT/MEDIA_ROOT which makes no sense.

Try something like:

file = models.FileField(upload_to='files', blank = True)

docs:

FileField.upload_to A local filesystem path that will be appended to your MEDIA_ROOT setting to determine the value of the url attribute.

Upvotes: 2

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