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Asked: 2026-05-26T13:02:25+00:00

Looked at some other similar answers on stack overflow, but no relevant answer was

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Looked at some other similar answers on stack overflow, but no relevant answer was found.

STATIC_ROOT = /home/www/proj_a/static
MEDIA_ROOT = /home/www/proj_a/media
STATIC_URL = /static/
MEDIA_URL = /media/

in some class in some model, we have the upload_to set

pix = models.FileField(_('photo'), upload_to='upload', blank=True)

I would have expected the file to be sent to /media/upload/1.jpg
However, it ends up in /static/upload/1.jpg

This is not lining up with my understanding of docs on Django 1.3.

I am using Django 1.3 in Debug mode.

I am not using Apache yet, I’ll worry about it later, for now I am just trying to figure out the runserver issue in debug mode.

Thx

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can set a custom storage directory by doing something like this:

    upload_dir = FileSystemStorage(location=UPLOAD_ROOT, base_url='/uploads')
pix = models.FileField(_('photo'), upload_to='/upload', blank=True, storage=upload_dir)

    UPLOAD_ROOT is defined in my settings.py file: /path/www/upload

    Check these 2 pages for more details:

    http://abing.gotdns.com/posts/2009/django-file-upload-handling-examples/

    http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/custom-file-storage/

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