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dizzy
dizzy

Reputation: 1277

Flask-Uploads IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

So, I've been trying to add an image uploader to my code, but I've been running into issues. Even though I thought I had my upload_folder configured properly, I keep getting errors like: IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/static/uploads/compressor.jpg' even though the file/directory exists.

Here's the code:

in config.py

UPLOAD_FOLDER = 'static/uploads'

in init.py

app.config['UPLOAD_FOLDER'] = UPLOAD_FOLDER

in views.py

@app.route('/fileupload', methods=['GET', 'POST'])
def upload_file():
    if request.method == 'POST':
        #check if the post request has the file part
        if 'file' not in request.files:
            flash('No file part')
            return redirect(request.url)
        file = request.files['file']
        # if user does not select file, browser also
        #submit an empty part without filename
        if file.filename == '':
            flash('No selected file')
            return redirect(request.url)
        if file and allowed_file(file.filename):
            filename = secure_filename(file.filename)
            file.save(os.path.join(app.config['UPLOAD_FOLDER'], filename))
            return redirect(url_for('uploaded_file',
                                    filename=filename))
    return '''
    <!doctype html>
    <title>Upload new File</title>
    <h>UPload new file</h1>
    <form action="" method=post enctype=multipart/form-data>
        <p><input type=file name=file>
            <input type=submit value=Upload>
    </form>
    '''

@app.route('/uploads/<filename>')
def uploaded_file(filename):
    return send_from_directory(app.config['UPLOAD_FOLDER'],
                               filename)

My folder structure is as follows

  /project folder
   --/app
   ----/static
   --------/uploads
   ----/templates
   ----_init__.py
   ----views.py
   --config.py

When I use /tmp/ to store it in memory the uploader works no problem. I assume it's not looking in the proper path for my folder. Can anyone help here? I'm a very amateur python developer.

Upvotes: 15

Views: 36070

Answers (4)

Eric Andrews
Eric Andrews

Reputation: 956

In init.py

app.config.from_mapping(
    SECRET_KEY='dev',
    DATABASE=os.path.join(app.instance_path, 'database.sqlite'),
    UPLOAD_FOLDER= os.path.join(app.static_folder, 'uploads'),
    ALLOWED_EXTENSIONS=set(['.png', '.jpg', '.jpeg', '.gif']),
)

Upvotes: 0

Newton Akhur
Newton Akhur

Reputation: 1

@jidesakin's solutions works but here is another solution:

Move your uploads folder from static directory back to your project directory where your app folder is, the folder where your app and environment folders are.

Your structure will be like:

'projectfolder
--/app
      --config.py
      --__init__.py
------/static
------/templates
------config
--uploads

Then change the content of you upload folder from 'static/uploads' to 'uploads' ...

Upvotes: 0

jidesakin
jidesakin

Reputation: 359

This worked for me:

basedir = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))

file.save(os.path.join(basedir, app.config['UPLOAD_FOLDER'], filename))

Upvotes: 17

kardaj
kardaj

Reputation: 1935

Both /tmp and /static/uploads/.., are absolute paths. And your code is looking in the / folder instead of looking in your project's folder. You should use the absolute path to point at your folder /path/to/your/project/static/uploads/.. or use a path relative to the code being executed such as ./static/uploads.

You can also use the following snippet to generate the absolute path:

from os.path import join, dirname, realpath

UPLOADS_PATH = join(dirname(realpath(__file__)), 'static/uploads/..')

Upvotes: 19

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