Errno - 13 Permission denied: '/media/ - Django

Question

I am using Django 3.1 in ubuntu,

I got an error while uploading media files

PermissionError at /admin/main/artist/1/change/
[Errno 13] Permission denied: '/media/artists'

Exception Type: PermissionError
Exception Value:    
[Errno 13] Permission denied: '/media/artists'
Exception Location: /usr/lib/python3.8/os.py, line 223, in makedirs
Python Executable:  /home/rahul/.local/share/virtualenvs/music-69qL54Ia/bin/python

This code works in windows, but not in ubuntu

Settings.py

STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATICFILES_DIRS = [BASE_DIR / 'static']

MEDIA_URL = '/media/'
MEDIA_ROOT = BASE_DIR / '/media/'

Models.py

class Artist(models.Model):
    image = models.ImageField(upload_to='artists/%Y/%m/%d/', default='demo-artist.jpg', null=True, blank=True)

I tried this but didn't work

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21797372/django-errno-13-permission-denied-var-www-media-animals-user-uploads

Answer 1

I got the same error and debugged it using the shell

In your settings.py file: Change:

MEDIA_ROOT = BASE_DIR / '/media/'
# here, MEDIA_ROOT = '/media/'

To:

MEDIA_ROOT = BASE_DIR / 'media/'
# here, MEDIA_ROOT = 'path-to-project/media/'

I think this happens because you are trying to join your project level dir to the /media/ directory that exists in linux for mounting media. And would cause permission denied because root has the write permissions, you probably aren't running everything with sudo. So, instead you can remove the first \ to make the directory relative.

Answer 2

mkdir --mode=777 -pv /home/rahul/.local/share/virtualenvs/music-69qL54Ia/{admin/main/artist/1/change,media/artists}

chmod -R 777 /home/rahul/.local/share/virtualenvs/music-69qL54Ia