Upload above apache web root?

[Federico Capoano]

Hi everyone,

is it possible to write a custom model filefield that upload files
somewhere above the public directory?

[Federico Capoano]

Is this not possible? I wonder why Django force to upload files only
in a certain directory and doesn't allow more flexibility.

[blaamann]

I haven't tried this myself, but a custom file storage might help you:
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/custom-file-storage/

or using a callback:
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/models/fields/#filefield

Regards

[Xavier Ordoquy]

Well, the documentation already tells you about it:
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/topics/files/#the-built-in-filesystem-storage-class

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[Federico Capoano]

Yes you're right, I'm trying it out. I'll post a solution when I'm
done.


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> Well, the documentation already tells you about it:http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/topics/files/#the-built-in-files...

[Federico Capoano]

PS: i'll post a solution so other noobs like me will see how to do
that..

[Xavier Ordoquy]

Hi,

To me, it looks like the documentation already gave the answer.

Regards,
Xavier.

[Federico Capoano]

I wanted to write this post anyway, gives a quick solution to upload
files above the public directory and serve the files with django-
filetransfers. Hopefully it will be easier to find from search
engines.

http://nemesisdesign.net/blog/coding/django-private-file-upload-and-serving/

[Stephanie Socias]

I've implemented this same solution (using custom file storage and the "upload_to" parameter) but now cannot get the uploaded files to display from my template. I would normally use {{ STATIC_URL }} but, since I've now specified a custom location, I'm not sure why my path, which I've hard-coded in the template, isn't working...any ideas?

fs = FileSystemStorage(location='/data/www/upload')

def image_location(instance, filename):
    return '/'.join(['thumbnails', str(instance.dataset_id), filename])

class DataModel(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField()
    date = models.DateField(blank=True)  
    image = models.ImageField(storage=fs, upload_to=image_location, blank=True)

template.html

<a href="{% url 'myproj:items' %}">
    <img class="media-object img-thumbnail" src="/data/www/upload/{{ datamine.image }}" alt="Data Image Here" height="130" width="130">
</a>

[Daniel Roseman]

On Monday, 6 April 2015 22:38:36 UTC+1, Stephanie Socias wrote:

I've implemented this same solution (using custom file storage and the "upload_to" parameter) but now cannot get the uploaded files to display from my template. I would normally use {{ STATIC_URL }} but, since I've now specified a custom location, I'm not sure why my path, which I've hard-coded in the template, isn't working...any ideas?

fs = FileSystemStorage(location='/data/www/upload')

def image_location(instance, filename):
    return '/'.join(['thumbnails', str(instance.dataset_id), filename])

class DataModel(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField()
    date = models.DateField(blank=True)  
    image = models.ImageField(storage=fs, upload_to=image_location, blank=True)

template.html

<a href="{% url 'myproj:items' %}">
    <img class="media-object img-thumbnail" src="/data/www/upload/{{ datamine.image }}" alt="Data Image Here" height="130" width="130">
</a>

But /data/www/upload/... is the file path of your upload, not the URL. You still need an actual URL that is served by your webserver. Obviously, a browser can't access arbitrary file paths on your server.

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[Stephanie Socias]

Thank you very much for responding, Daniel.

I'm sorry I don't quite follow- I've never done this before. I should use the URL {{ datamine.image.url }} in the template?

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[Stephanie Socias]

Do I need to update/add something to my urls.py?

On Tuesday, April 7, 2015 at 9:51:56 AM UTC-4, Stephanie Socias wrote:

Thank you very much for responding, Daniel.

I'm sorry I don't quite follow- I've never done this before. I should use the URL {{ datamine.image.url }} in the template?

On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 5:36 AM, Daniel Roseman <dan...@roseman.org.uk> wrote:

On Monday, 6 April 2015 22:38:36 UTC+1, Stephanie Socias wrote:

I've implemented this same solution (using custom file storage and the "upload_to" parameter) but now cannot get the uploaded files to display from my template. I would normally use {{ STATIC_URL }} but, since I've now specified a custom location, I'm not sure why my path, which I've hard-coded in the template, isn't working...any ideas?

fs = FileSystemStorage(location='/data/www/upload')

def image_location(instance, filename):
    return '/'.join(['thumbnails', str(instance.dataset_id), filename])

class DataModel(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField()
    date = models.DateField(blank=True)  
    image = models.ImageField(storage=fs, upload_to=image_location, blank=True)

template.html

<a href="{% url 'myproj:items' %}">
    <img class="media-object img-thumbnail" src="/data/www/upload/{{ datamine.image }}" alt="Data Image Here" height="130" width="130">
</a>

But /data/www/upload/... is the file path of your upload, not the URL. You still need an actual URL that is served by your webserver. Obviously, a browser can't access arbitrary file paths on your server.

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[Luis Zárate]

Hi,

Django provide for development MEDIA_URL and MEDIA_ROOT for uploaded file, for production used static deploy strategy, see the documentation about static files.

Model file field has an url attribute that return a media url, you use in template like {{obj.file.url}}

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[Stephanie Socias]

Hi Luis,

Yes, I used {{ datamine.image.url }} in my template but it doesn't work. I'm not sure how to format my urls.py since I haven't changed the MEDIA_URL and MEDIA_ROOT. I want to upload these images to a location not in my MEDIA_ROOT...?

This is my urls.py:
urlpatterns = patterns('',
    # Examples:
    # url(r'^$', 'tt.views.home', name='home'),
    # url(r'^blog/', include('blog.urls')),

    url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
    url(r'^', include('myproj.urls', namespace='myproj')),
) + static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)

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[Luis Zárate]

You are not set base_url in FileSystemStorage so you are using MEDIA_URL by
default.

The imagefield url property is called like this

    def _get_url(self):
        self._require_file() # check if It is an object
        return self.storage.url(self.name)
    url = property(_get_url)

And self.storage.url throw exception if base_url is not set.

    def url(self, name):
        if self.base_url is None:
            raise ValueError("This file is not accessible via a URL.")
        return urljoin(self.base_url, filepath_to_uri(name))

So, I should try to call datamine.image.url() in shell and see what happen 

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[Stephanie Socias]

Thank you all for your input. It turns out my settings file was improperly configured. I needed to change MEDIA_ROOT and MEDIA_URL

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