Can't upload media files django on digital ocean

Question

I've recently deployed a django app on digital ocean. Everything works perfectly fine until I try to create an object containing an image. I get an error saying Server Error (500).

Here is what I've tried to do :

server {
listen 80;
server_name ****;

location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
location /static/ {
    root /home/joseph/hacka;
}

location /media/ {
    root /home/joseph/hacka;
}

location / {
    include proxy_params;
    proxy_pass http://unix:/run/gunicorn.sock;
}
}

Here is my settings.py code :

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

Unfortunately, that hasn't work out.
Please help me if you know the anwer to my problem.

Update:
I have found the problem with my code: when I turn debug to True, I get an error saying
errno 13: Permission denied.

However, I don not know how to fix this.

Please help me if you can.

it says that I don't it can't find some bootstrap files that have nothing to do with my problem — Fantasmo Clone27, Aug 23 '18 at 10:50

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 23 '18 at 12:03

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I guess your problem is because of the media file. Did you check the media settings?

You need to check in the settings.py

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

MEDIA_URL = '/media/'

answered Aug 23 '18 at 12:03

Arghya Saha

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That's not the problem. It's exactly what I have – Fantasmo Clone27 Aug 23 '18 at 12:49
Are you trying to serve static files using djngo? – Arghya Saha Aug 23 '18 at 12:51
What do you mean? In my urls ? – Fantasmo Clone27 Aug 23 '18 at 12:53
Suppose you have abc.jpg in the server. Now to access that jpg file you would use http://example.com/abc.jpg. Is your django server meant only for this purpose? – Arghya Saha Aug 23 '18 at 12:58
I can successfully access to my static and media files, but I can't upload any media files form the webiste. – Fantasmo Clone27 Aug 23 '18 at 12:59
Is it getting saved? Can you edit the question and put the view code? – Arghya Saha Aug 23 '18 at 13:00
What do you mean by getting saved? What are you talking about? And which view code? – Fantasmo Clone27 Aug 23 '18 at 13:02
When you upload a media file , it needs to be saved in the server – Arghya Saha Aug 23 '18 at 13:03
Is it located in my settings.py file ? – Fantasmo Clone27 Aug 23 '18 at 13:03
https://simpleisbetterthancomplex.com/tutorial/2016/08/01/how-to-upload-files-with-django.html follow this guide – Arghya Saha Aug 23 '18 at 13:39

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 25 '19 at 08:09

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Just remove '/' from MEDIA_URL in setting.py like this MEDIA_URL = 'media/'

answered Jan 25 '19 at 08:09

Deepak0174

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 16 '19 at 07:13

I may have faced similar issue. My setup is Gunicorn running behind Nginx. When uploading a file to django media library, the request does not show up in Gunicorn's access log. That means it is stopped by Nginx and a 500 error code was returned. Further search led to this site, https://killtheradio.net/technology/nginx-returns-error-on-file-upload/ , which solved my problem.

Basically, Nginx temporarily saves file body to disk at /var/lib/nginx/client_body. But this folder was not accessible to the Nginx process. A simple chown solved the problem then.

Can't upload media files django on digital ocean

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