django.core.exceptions.SuspiciousFileOperation: The joined path is located outside of the base path component

Question

This worked fine everytime used to do django websites but this time it is giving me an error.

Settings.py

STATICFILES_DIRS = [
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'portfolio/static/')
]

STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR , 'static')
STATIC_URL = '/static/'

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

I have a profile.jpg in my directory Portfolio-Project/Portfolio/static/profile.jpg. It should collectstatic from here and paste the staticfiles in Portfolio-project/static as mentioned in my code. but it is giving ,me some error.

Error After using the command "Python manage.py collectstatic"

django.core.exceptions.SuspiciousFileOperation: The joined path 
(C:\Users\Kiran\Desktop\portfolio-project\portfolio\static\Profile.jpg) is 
located outside of the base path component 
(C:\Users\Kiran\Desktop\portfolio- project\portfolio\static\)

Please Help. Thanks

Answer 1

In your line:

os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'portfolio/static/')

Delete the last slash:

 os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'portfolio/static')

Anyway, this is the ideal:

STATICFILES_DIRS = (
  os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static'),
)

STATIC_URL = '/static/'

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