who creates the media folder in django and how to change permission rights?

Question

I set up django using nginx and gunicorn. I am looking at the permission in my project folder and I see that the permission for the media folder is set to root (all others are set to debian):

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 55K Dec 2 13:33 media

I am executing all app relevant commands like makemigrations, migrate, collectstatic, from debian, therefore everything else is debian.

But the media folder doesn't exist when I start my app. I will be created once I upload stuff.

But who creates it and how do I change the permissions to debain?

Answer 1

Coulnd't find out who exactly is it created by, however, the permissions depend on the user (root or non root).

This means if you run the commands (for example: python manage.py runserver) with sudo or under root the folder gets root permissions which can't be edited from a non root user.