How to access directory file outside django project?

Question

I have my Django project running on RHEL 7 OS. The project is in path /root/project. And project is hosted on httpd server. Now iam trying to access a file out side the directory like /root/data/info/test.txt

How should I access this path in views.py so that I can read and write file which is outside the project directory ? I tried to add the path in sys.path but it didn't work. Read and write permission are also give to the file.

Answer 1

Add the following lines to your settings.py

import os
..
BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
FILES_DIR = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(BASE_DIR, '../data/info'))

Then you can use in your view

from django.conf import settings
import os
..
file_path = os.path.join(settings.FILES_DIR, 'test.txt')