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

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 30 '20 at 15:11

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.

This worked great for me, but I had to use `os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'media/')` to concatenate the path strings. — Matthew Fitch, Jan 12 '21 at 11:48

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 01 '20 at 12:40

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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

answered Oct 01 '20 at 12:40

evan

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 01 '20 at 13:18

1

Maybe you forgot to add the MEDIA_ROOT to your urls.py.
For more info checkout the docs

urlpatterns = [
    # ... the rest of your URLconf goes here ...
] + static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)

Note: This is not suitable for production use. if thats the case you can checkout the docs

answered Oct 01 '20 at 13:18

barbaart

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I added that when I created the project – Rahul Yadav Oct 01 '20 at 13:47

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

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