Question

I’ve set up Django with Apache2 + mod_wsgi. The static Files are served by Nginx. Apache is running on Port 81 and nginx on Port 80.

my settings are like this:
MEDIA_ROOT = ‘http://localhost/media/’
ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX = ‘http://localhost/media/’

Everything looks fine. At https://localhost:81/admin I can see the Django Admin Site with its static files.

I created a new app with this model:
class Song(models.Model):
song = models.FileField(upload_to=’songs’)

When I try to upload a file over the admin site i get following error.

OSError at /admin/player/song/add/

[Errno 13] Permission denied: ‘/http:’

Request Method: POST
Request URL: http://localhost:81/admin/player/song/add/
Django Version: 1.3.1
Exception Type: OSError
Exception Value:

How do I allow apache to apply changes to nginx

Answer 1

You’ve set your MEDIA_ROOT to a url. I think it should be set to a physical location, I think the same goes for the ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX. I would try change

MEDIA_ROOT = '/Projects/my_project/media/'  # assuming linux

and

ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX = PROJECT_URL + '/media/admin'

You’ll also have to set permissions to the media folder. I think you need to give www-data write permissions.