Suspicious Operation Django

Question

I've been running into a problem while trying to delete uploaded images.

The error is along these lines:

SuspiciousOperation: Attempted access to '/media/artists/12-stones/154339.jpg' denied. 

After reading around it looks like the error is due to the fact that it's looking for the image in the wrong place (notice first slash, /media/ doesn't exist on the filesystem)

My MEDIA_ROOT and MEDIA_URL are:

MEDIA_ROOT = '/home/tsoporan/site/media/' MEDIA_URL = "/media/ 

My models upload_to parameter is passed this function:

def get_artist_path(instance, filename):   return os.path.join('artists', slugify(instance.name), filename) 

My questions are:

1) How can I fix this problem for future uploads?

2) Is it possible to fix my current images' paths without having to reupload?

Regards, Titus

Answer 1

I got this error when I put a leading slash in the upload_to definition.

BAD

pic = models.ImageField(upload_to="/uploads/product_images/") 

GOOD

pic = models.ImageField(upload_to="uploads/product_images/")