Marty, That was the problem, thank you for you help.
--Jon On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Marty Alchin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 8:47 AM, Jon Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm trying to work with a model which accepts a logo image upload via >> an ImageField. My a cut down version of my model is below: >> >> class Promoter(models.Model): >> name = models.CharField(max_length=100) >> logo = models.ImageField(upload_to="/images/promoters/%Y/%m/%d/") > > Drop the first slash in your path name. > >> When I try to upload the logo via the built-in admin interface, I get >> the following error: >> >> SuspiciousOperation at /admin/promoters/promoter/add/ >> Attempted access to '/images/promoters/2008/08/19/kitten.jpg' denied. >> >> In settings.py, my MEDIA_ROOT is set to an accessible directory in my >> home folder: '/home/username/projectname/media/', and this folder has >> it's permissions set to 777. > > But with that leading slash, you're trying to save to > /images/promotors/%Y/%m/%d/, not > /home/username/projectname/media/images/promotors/%Y/%m/%d/ like you > want. That path probably doesn't exist, and Django would need > unrestricted access to your system in order to create it for you. > Needless to say, not a good situation. > > That SuspiciousOperation is in place to help prevent Django from > trying to accidentally read or write from places on your filesystem it > shouldn't have access to. Just drop the first slash in the path name > (so it reads upload_to="images/promoters/%Y/%m/%d/") and you'll be all > set. > > -Gul > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
