Error SuspiciousFileOperation at /index/ when I changed the media root location

[Alfred Wayne]

My images product images weren't showing, not even the image not found error, my media_root was a directory above the project-root, So I thought cahnging the media_root to project root/public/media may change that , but the I get the error:

SuspiciousFileOperation at /index/ 

The joined path (.../barbaranew/media/media_root/images/products/malaysian1.png) is located outside of the base path component (.../barbaranew/barbaralee_site/public/media)

I have tried makemigrations, migrate, even collect static but none of them sem to work

my settings.py

# SECURITY WARNING: don't run with debug turned on in production!
DEBUG = True

ALLOWED_HOSTS = []

# Application definition

INSTALLED_APPS = [
                     'django.contrib.admin',
                     'django.contrib.auth',
                     'django.contrib.contenttypes',
                     'django.contrib.sessions',
                     'django.contrib.sites',
                     'django.contrib.messages',
                     'django.contrib.staticfiles',
                     'django.contrib.flatpages',

                     'django_extensions',
                     'compressor',
                     'widget_tweaks',
                     'debug_toolbar',
                     'layouts',
                     'crispy_forms',
                     'envelope',
                     # 'formtools'
                 ] + get_core_apps(['apps.catalogue'])

SITE_ID = 1

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
    'debug_toolbar.middleware.DebugToolbarMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.SessionAuthenticationMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
    'oscar.apps.basket.middleware.BasketMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.flatpages.middleware.FlatpageFallbackMiddleware',
)

ROOT_URLCONF = 'barbaralee_site.urls'

TEMPLATES = [
    {
        'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
        'DIRS': [
            os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates'),
            os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates', 'layouts'),
            os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates', 'layouts', 'barbaralee'),
            OSCAR_MAIN_TEMPLATE_DIR
        ],
        'OPTIONS': {
            'loaders': (
                'django.template.loaders.filesystem.Loader',
                'django.template.loaders.app_directories.Loader',
            ),
            'context_processors': [
                'django.template.context_processors.debug',
                'django.template.context_processors.request',
                'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
                'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',

                'oscar.apps.search.context_processors.search_form',
                'oscar.apps.promotions.context_processors.promotions',
                'oscar.apps.checkout.context_processors.checkout',
                'oscar.apps.customer.notifications.context_processors.notifications',
                'oscar.core.context_processors.metadata',
            ],
        },
    },
]

WSGI_APPLICATION = 'barbaralee_site.wsgi.application'

# Database
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/ref/settings/#databases

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
        'NAME': os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'db.sqlite3'),
    }
}
AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (
    'oscar.apps.customer.auth_backends.EmailBackend',
    'django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend',
)

# Internationalization
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/topics/i18n/

LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-us'

TIME_ZONE = 'Africa/Nairobi'

USE_I18N = True

USE_L10N = True

USE_TZ = True

STATIC_URL = '/static/'

# STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(BASE_DIR), "static", "static_root")
STATIC_ROOT = location('public/static')
STATICFILES_DIRS = (
    location('static/'),
    location('static/layouts')
)

MEDIA_URL = '/media/'
# MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(BASE_DIR), "media", "media_root")
MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'public', 'media')
STATICFILES_FINDERS = (
    'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
)

HAYSTACK_CONNECTIONS = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'haystack.backends.simple_backend.SimpleEngine',
    },
}

COMPRESS_DEBUG_TOGGLE = False
COMPRESS_CSS_COMPRESSOR = 'compressor.css.CssCompressor'
COMPRESS_JS_COMPRESSOR = 'compressor.js.JsCompressor'
COMPRESS_PRECOMPILERS = ()
COMPRESS_PARSER = 'compressor.parser.AutoSelectParser'

OSCAR_INITIAL_ORDER_STATUS = 'Pending'
OSCAR_INITIAL_LINE_STATUS = 'Pending'
OSCAR_ORDER_STATUS_PIPELINE = {
    'Pending': ('Being processed', 'Cancelled',),
    'Being processed': ('Processed', 'Cancelled',),
    'Cancelled': (),
}
DEBUG_TOOLBAR_PATCH_SETTINGS = False
DEBUG_TOOLBAR_PANELS = [
    'debug_toolbar.panels.versions.VersionsPanel',
    'debug_toolbar.panels.timer.TimerPanel',
    'debug_toolbar.panels.settings.SettingsPanel',
    'debug_toolbar.panels.headers.HeadersPanel',
    'debug_toolbar.panels.request.RequestPanel',
    'debug_toolbar.panels.sql.SQLPanel',
    'debug_toolbar.panels.staticfiles.StaticFilesPanel',
    'debug_toolbar.panels.templates.TemplatesPanel',
    'debug_toolbar.panels.cache.CachePanel',
    'debug_toolbar.panels.signals.SignalsPanel',
    'debug_toolbar.panels.logging.LoggingPanel',
    'debug_toolbar.panels.redirects.RedirectsPanel',
]
INTERNAL_IPS = ['127.0.0.1']

PAYPAL_API_USERNAME = 'email'
PAYPAL_API_PASSWORD = 'paasss'
PAYPAL_API_SIGNATURE = 'paasss'
PAYPAL_CURRENCY = 'USD'

OSCAR_RECENTLY_VIEWED_COOKIE_LIFETIME = 2419200
OSCAR_BASKET_COOKIE_LIFETIME = 2419200
OSCAR_FROM_EMAIL = 'alne...@gmail.com'
OSCAR_DEFAULT_CURRENCY = 'USD'
OSCAR_UPLOAD_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'tmp')

# EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.console.EmailBackend'

EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'alne...@gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = ''
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True

# EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.live.com'
# EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'alfie...@hotmail.com'
# EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = ''
# EMAIL_PORT = 25
# EMAIL_USE_TLS = True

TEMPLATE_DEBUG = True
THUMBNAIL_DEBUG = True

OSCAR_ALLOW_ANON_CHECKOUT = False
OSCAR_SEND_REGISTRATION_EMAIL = True
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = 'alne...@gmail.com'

OSCAR_DASHBOARD_NAVIGATION += [
    {
        'label': 'Store manager',
        'children': [
            {
                'label': 'Stores',
                'url_name': 'your-reverse-url-lookup-name',
            },
        ]
    },
]

MESSAGE_TAGS = {
    messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
    messages.INFO: 'info',
    # messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
    messages.WARNING: 'warning',
    messages.ERROR: 'danger'  # 'error' by default
}
OSCAR_MISSING_IMAGE_URL = MEDIA_URL + 'image_not_found.jpg'
try:
    from settings_local import *
except ImportError:
    pass

[William Harris]

This is not a django-oscar problem.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=django+suspiciousfileoperation

[Alfred Wayne]

Okey, but I have been searching, not found a solution yet, had even asked in stackoverflow, the only one guy I read had this problem, it was solved my makemigrations, but mine won't