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Asked: 2026-06-13T11:53:46+00:00

i have a problem with a local installation on django cms 2.3.3: i’ve installed

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i have a problem with a local installation on django cms 2.3.3: i’ve installed it trough pip, in a separated virtualenv. next i followed the tutorial for settings.py configuration, i started the server. Then in the admin i created an page (home), and i’ve tried to add an image in the placeholder through the cmsplugin_filer_image, but the upload seems that doesn’t work. here’s my settings.py:

# Django settings for cms1 project.
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import os
gettext = lambda s: s
PROJECT_PATH = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))

DEBUG = True
TEMPLATE_DEBUG = DEBUG

ADMINS = (
    # ('Your Name', 'your_email@example.com'),
)

MANAGERS = ADMINS

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
    'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2', # Add 'postgresql_psycopg2', 'mysql', 'sqlite3' or 'oracle'.
    'NAME': 'cms1',                      # Or path to database file if using sqlite3.
    'USER': 'cms',                      # Not used with sqlite3.
    'PASSWORD': 'cms',                  # Not used with sqlite3.
    'HOST': '',                      # Set to empty string for localhost. Not used with sqlite3.
    'PORT': '',                      # Set to empty string for default. Not used with sqlite3.
    }
}

# Local time zone for this installation. Choices can be found here:
# http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_zones_by_name
# although not all choices may be available on all operating systems.
# In a Windows environment this must be set to your system time zone.
TIME_ZONE = 'Europe/Rome'

# Language code for this installation. All choices can be found here:
# http://www.i18nguy.com/unicode/language-identifiers.html
LANGUAGE_CODE = 'it-it'

SITE_ID = 1

# If you set this to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not
# to load the internationalization machinery.
USE_I18N = True

# If you set this to False, Django will not format dates, numbers and
# calendars according to the current locale.
USE_L10N = True

# If you set this to False, Django will not use timezone-aware datetimes.
USE_TZ = True

# Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files.
# Example: "/home/media/media.lawrence.com/media/"
MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(PROJECT_PATH, "media")

# URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT. Make sure to use a
# trailing slash.
# Examples: "http://media.lawrence.com/media/", "http://example.com/media/"
MEDIA_URL = '/media/'

# Absolute path to the directory static files should be collected to.
# Don't put anything in this directory yourself; store your static files
# in apps' "static/" subdirectories and in STATICFILES_DIRS.
# Example: "/home/media/media.lawrence.com/static/"
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(PROJECT_PATH, "static")
STATIC_URL = "/static/"


# Additional locations of static files
STATICFILES_DIRS = (
     os.path.join(PROJECT_PATH, "static_auto"),
    # Put strings here, like "/home/html/static" or "C:/www/django/static".
    # Always use forward slashes, even on Windows.
    # Don't forget to use absolute paths, not relative paths.
)

# List of finder classes that know how to find static files in
# various locations.
STATICFILES_FINDERS = (
    'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
#    'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder',
)

# Make this unique, and don't share it with anybody.
SECRET_KEY = '^c2q3d8w)f#gk%5i)(#i*lwt%lm-!2=(*1d!1cf+rg&-hqi_9u'

# List of callables that know how to import templates from various sources.
TEMPLATE_LOADERS = (
    'django.template.loaders.filesystem.Loader',
    'django.template.loaders.app_directories.Loader',
#     'django.template.loaders.eggs.Loader',
)

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
    'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
    'cms.middleware.multilingual.MultilingualURLMiddleware',
    'cms.middleware.page.CurrentPageMiddleware',
    'cms.middleware.user.CurrentUserMiddleware',
    'cms.middleware.toolbar.ToolbarMiddleware',
    # Uncomment the next line for simple clickjacking protection:
    # 'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
)

ROOT_URLCONF = 'cms1.urls'

# Python dotted path to the WSGI application used by Django's runserver.
WSGI_APPLICATION = 'cms1.wsgi.application'

TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
    os.path.join(PROJECT_PATH, "templates"),
    # Put strings here, like "/home/html/django_templates" or "C:/www/django/templates".
    # Always use forward slashes, even on Windows.
    # Don't forget to use absolute paths, not relative paths.
)

CMS_TEMPLATES = (
    ('template_1.html', 'Template One'),
    ('template_2.html', 'Template Two'),
)

TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = (
    'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
    'django.core.context_processors.i18n',
    'django.core.context_processors.request',
    'django.core.context_processors.media',
    'django.core.context_processors.static',
    'cms.context_processors.media',
    'sekizai.context_processors.sekizai',
)

LANGUAGES = [
    ('it', 'Italiano'),
    ('en', 'English'),
]

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.sites',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    'cms', #django CMS itself
    'mptt', #utilities for implementing a modified pre-order traversal tree
    'menus', #helper for model independent hierarchical website navigation
    'south', #intelligent schema and data migrations
    'sekizai', #for javascript and css management
    #'cms.plugins.file',
    'cms.plugins.flash',
    'cms.plugins.googlemap',
    'cms.plugins.link',
    #'cms.plugins.picture',
    'cms.plugins.snippet',
    'cms.plugins.teaser',
    'cms.plugins.text',
    #'cms.plugins.video',
    'cms.plugins.twitter',
    'filer',
    'cmsplugin_filer_file',
    'cmsplugin_filer_folder',
    'cmsplugin_filer_image',
    'cmsplugin_filer_teaser',
    'cmsplugin_filer_video',
    'easy_thumbnails',
    'PIL',

    # Uncomment the next line to enable the admin:
    'django.contrib.admin',
    # Uncomment the next line to enable admin documentation:
    # 'django.contrib.admindocs',
)

# A sample logging configuration. The only tangible logging
# performed by this configuration is to send an email to
# the site admins on every HTTP 500 error when DEBUG=False.
# See http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/logging for
# more details on how to customize your logging configuration.
LOGGING = {
    'version': 1,
    'disable_existing_loggers': False,
    'filters': {
    'require_debug_false': {
        '()': 'django.utils.log.RequireDebugFalse'
    }
    },
    'handlers': {
    'mail_admins': {
        'level': 'ERROR',
        'filters': ['require_debug_false'],
        'class': 'django.utils.log.AdminEmailHandler'
    }
    },
    'loggers': {
    'django.request': {
        'handlers': ['mail_admins'],
        'level': 'ERROR',
        'propagate': True,
    },
    }
}

when i try to upload an image, in the clipboard section i don’t have the thumbnail, but just an ‘undefined’ message:

enter image description here

and this is the runserver console while trying to upload:

[20/Oct/2012 15:15:56] "POST /admin/filer/clipboard/operations/upload/?qqfile=29708_1306856312320_7706073_n.jpg HTTP/1.1" 500 248133
[20/Oct/2012 15:15:56] "GET /it/admin/filer/folder/unfiled_images/undefined HTTP/1.1" 301 0
[20/Oct/2012 15:15:56] "GET /it/admin/filer/folder/unfiled_images/undefined/ HTTP/1.1" 404 1739

Also, this is project filesystem:

cms1
├── cms1
│   ├── __init__.py
│   ├── __init__.pyc
│   ├── media
│   │   └── filer_public
│   │       └── 2012
│   │           └── 10
│   │               └── 20
│   │                   ├── 29708_1306856312320_7706073_n_1.jpg
│   │                   ├── 29708_1306856312320_7706073_n_2.jpg
│   │                   ├── 29708_1306856312320_7706073_n_3.jpg
│   │                   ├── 29708_1306856312320_7706073_n_4.jpg
│   │                   ├── 29708_1306856312320_7706073_n_5.jpg
│   │                   ├── 29708_1306856312320_7706073_n_6.jpg
│   │                   ├── 29708_1306856312320_7706073_n_7.jpg
│   │                   ├── 29708_1306856312320_7706073_n.jpg
│   │                   └── torrent-client-macosx.jpg
│   ├── settings.py
│   ├── settings.pyc
│   ├── static
│   ├── static_auto
│   ├── static_manual
│   ├── templates
│   │   ├── base.html
│   │   ├── template_1.html
│   │   └── template_2.html
│   ├── urls.py
│   ├── urls.pyc
│   ├── wsgi.py
│   └── wsgi.pyc
└── manage.py

So files are uploaded, but they are not accessible to cms. there’s a similar question here, but doens’t help me so much.
It would be very helpful any help on this issue to me.

Thanks, luke

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  1. Editorial Team

    This error because you installed PIL with out JPEG/PNG support.
    you will need to install the following packages

    sudo apt-get install python-imaging  python-dev libjpeg8 libjpeg8-dev libfreetype6 libfreetype6-dev

    Then uninstall PIL pip uninstall PIL

    I suggest installing pillow instead of PIL using pip install pillow.
    make sure to read the log after installation, it should say that JPEG and PNG are supported

    Console Log

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