Error finding Upload-Folder. Maybe it does not exist?

[Michał T. Lorenc]

Hello,

I found a Django project and failed to get it running in Docker container in the following way:

 1. `git clone git clone https://github.com/NAL-i5K/django-blast.git`

 2. `$ cat requirements.txt` in this files the below dependencies had to be updated:

    - psycopg2==2.8.6 

I have the following Dockerfile:

```

FROM python:2

ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1

RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y postgresql-client

WORKDIR /code

COPY requirements.txt /code/

RUN pip install -r requirements.txt

COPY . /code/

RUN mkdir -p /var/log/django

RUN mkdir -p /var/log/i5k

```

For `docker-compose.yml` I use:

```

version: "3"

services:

  db:

    image: postgres

    volumes:

      - ./data/db:/var/lib/postgresql/data

      - ./scripts/install-extensions.sql:/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/install-extensions.sql

    environment:

      - POSTGRES_DB=postgres

      - POSTGRES_USER=postgres

      - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=postgres

  web:

    build: .

    command: python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000

    volumes:

      - .:/code

    ports:

      - "8000:8000"

    depends_on:

      - db

    links:

      - db

```

```

$ cat scripts/install-extensions.sql 

CREATE EXTENSION hstore;

```

I had to change:

```

    $ vim i5k/settings.py

    DATABASES = {

        'default': {

            'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2',

            'NAME': 'postgres',

            'USER': 'postgres',

            'PASSWORD': 'postgres',

            'HOST': 'db',

            'PORT': '5432',

            }

    }

```

Next, I ran:

1. `docker-compose up --build`
2. `docker-compose run web python manage.py`
   
3. `docker-compose run web python manage.py migrate`
4. `docker-compose run web python manage.py createsuperuser`
   

Finally, I opened in Browser `http://localhost:8000/admin/blast/blastdb/add/` and try to upload a file and got this error:

```

web_1  | [24/May/2021 18:04:53] "POST /admin/blast/sequencetype/add/?_to_field=id&_popup=1 HTTP/1.1" 200 237
web_1  | [24/May/2021 18:04:58] "GET /admin/blast/blastdb/add/ HTTP/1.1" 200 15281
web_1  | [24/May/2021 18:04:58] "GET /admin/jsi18n/ HTTP/1.1" 200 2372
web_1  | django.request ERROR 2021-05-24 18:05:05,381 10 [Internal Server Error: /admin/filebrowser/browse/]
web_1  | Traceback (most recent call last):
web_1  |   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 132, in get_response
web_1  |     response = wrapped_callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)
web_1  |   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/auth/decorators.py", line 22, in _wrapped_view
web_1  |     return view_func(request, *args, **kwargs)
web_1  |   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/views/decorators/cache.py", line 57, in _wrapped_view_func
web_1  |     response = view_func(request, *args, **kwargs)
web_1  |   File "/code/filebrowser/views.py", line 89, in browse
web_1  |     raise ImproperlyConfigured, _("Error finding Upload-Folder. Maybe it does not exist?")
web_1  | ImproperlyConfigured: Error finding Upload-Folder. Maybe it does not exist?
web_1  | [24/May/2021 18:05:05] "GET /admin/filebrowser/browse/?pop=1&dir=blast/db/&type=FASTA&filter_type=FASTA HTTP/1.1" 500 101471

```

Where do I have to create blast/db folder?

Thank you in advance

[Mic]

I tried to create the missing `blast/db` folder in the following way but it still does not work:

```

$ docker-compose exec web /bin/bash

# pwd

/code

# mkdir -p blast/db

# mkdir -p i5k/blast/db

```

Where do I have to create blast/db folder?

Thank you in advance,

Michal