Question

I recently had to drop the Django development server and moved to apache because of some problems with the html5 video tag.

The change brought a [Errno 13] Permission denied error when trying to upload a video to the media folder.

I have already set the media folder recursively to 777 with chmod and gave permissions to www-data group with chgrp; here is the output when executing ls -lha media/

total 12K
drwxrwxrwx  3 esteban www-data 4,0K 2012-02-22 06:44 .
drwxr-xr-x 10 esteban esteban  4,0K 2012-02-22 07:35 ..
drwxrwxrwx  3 esteban www-data 4,0K 2012-02-13 10:12 generated

I also wrote the following directive in the httpd.conf file:

<Directory /home/esteban/python_projects/video_transform/media>
Options +Indexes
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

This allows me to list the folder contents when browsing to http://localhost/media but no success with the uploads yet.

Any ideas??

EDIT: The exception is thrown in this line:

destination = open('media/' + filename, 'wb+')

Answer 1

Use an absolute path as suggested in comment. Read the documentation at:

http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/ApplicationIssues#Application_Working_Directory

as to why.