Solved by setting the <media>/cache/ directory to be owned by (on Ubuntu) www-data:www-data
and to correct my earlier guess, <media>/cache/... is the location of the generated thumbnails, not temp storage. -h On Dec 23, 11:52 am, Heath <[email protected]> wrote: > By enabling sorl's error - reporting I get this error: > > Caught OSError while rendering: (13, 'Permission denied') > Exception Location: /usr/lib/python2.6/os.py in makedirs, line 157 > > So in tracing the error, I find that the os is trying to create a path > in: > > <media>/cache/c4/dd > > I'm guessing this is temp storage. As a debug measure I have made the > <media> dir world-writable. I've even tried creating a group, making > apache a member and chgrp the <media> path, all to no avail. > > Remember, no error occurs when requesting the thumbnail generation via > the development server. > > Anyone have any thoughts on this? They would be most welcome. > > cheers, > > -h > > On Dec 21, 3:51 pm, Heath <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello, I am using sorl thumbnail generation and all works well under > > the Django development server. > > > On the production server (Apache:81-django; Lighttpd:80- static), > > there is no key/value created in response to the template tag request, > > and hence, no thumbnail generated. > > > If the same view is then rendered via the Django Development server, A > > key/value and thumbnail is generated. Then, a subsequent refresh via > > the production server will return the thumbnail as expected. > > > Is there and Apache specific configuration I need to set? > > > cheers, > > > -heathcarlisle -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.

