Issue isolated. The uploads are going into the MEDIA_ROOT, which is the 'media' folder in my app.
The MEDIA_URL is pointing to a location outside of the project. Is it proper/ feasible to save media to and serve it from, a media folder outside of the project? On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Sithembewena Lloyd Dube <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Kenneth, > > The FileField is optional indeed. Surely it should be populated where a > file is provided though? > > Update: turns out I have not installed the PIL on my staging server. Am > doing so now and retesting. this may well turn out to be a PEBKAC :) > > Thanks. > > > On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 15:11 +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: >> > On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 10:20 +0200, Sithembewena Lloyd Dube wrote: >> > > However, my live application fails to upload the file (ie the >> > > FileField is >> > > empty in the database after uploading, and the file is not >> > uploaded). >> > >> > path problem or permission problem >> >> I am assuming the filefield is optional >> -- >> regards >> Kenneth Gonsalves >> >> -- >> 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]<django-users%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. >> >> > > > -- > Regards, > Sithembewena Lloyd Dube > -- Regards, Sithembewena Lloyd Dube -- 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.

