Chown *ch*anges the *own*er of a file. If you navigate to the directory giving you trouble using terminal and run 'ls -latr', you'll get a print out of both the owner and group for the directory contents. The first name listed is the owner, the second is the group. You need to ensure that the group that the owner of home/projects belongs to matches the group of your python process. You can find out the owner of your python process by running: $ which python ...and then navigating to that directory, and also running ls -latr and checking the output on your terminal.
On my OS (also Ubuntu), the python process is owned by the root user who is a member of the root group. So, I would need to run this command to ensure that the owner of home/projects is a member of the same group (root): $ sudo chown <username>:root /home/projects ...change username to your own system username. On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Sithembewena Lloyd Dube <zebr...@gmail.com > wrote: > Thanks Jonathan, > > I actualyl came across that answer but am stupmed. I checked *man chown*in my > terminal and I never understand those manuals. I will try to find my > python process id. > > > On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Jonathan Baker < > jonathandavidba...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Sithembewena, >> >> I wasn't exactly right in my response, but close. You need to make sure >> that the same process running your python interpreter has write permissions >> to your media directory. >> >> From StackOverflow: >> "The process that is running your Python interpreter doesn't have >> permission to write into the media directory. You'll need to either chgrp >> or chrown the media directory to the same group as your Python process, >> and ensure you have at least g+rwx on directories and g+rw on files." >> >> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5543641/django-media-upload-errno-13-permission-denied >> >> On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Sithembewena Lloyd Dube < >> zebr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi Jonathan, >>> >>> Thanks for the response. How do I do that? I ran *sudo chmod -R a+rwX >>> Projects/* and I still get the same error. How do I go about making the >>> folder writable? >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Jonathan D. Baker < >>> jonathandavidba...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> You need to make sure your server has write permissions on the >>>> home/projects directory. >>>> >>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>> >>>> On Mar 17, 2012, at 9:02 AM, Sithembewena Lloyd Dube <zebr...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> I have a model with an ImageField and when I try to save a record in >>>> the admin site, I get the following: >>>> >>>> Environment: >>>> >>>> >>>> Request Method: POST >>>> Request URL: http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/myapp/course/add/ >>>> >>>> Django Version: 1.3.1 >>>> Python Version: 2.7.2 >>>> Installed Applications: >>>> ['django.contrib.auth', >>>> 'django.contrib.contenttypes', >>>> 'django.contrib.sessions', >>>> 'django.contrib.sites', >>>> 'django.contrib.messages', >>>> 'django.contrib.staticfiles', >>>> 'django.contrib.admin', >>>> 'munchlearnapp'] >>>> Installed Middleware: >>>> ('django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware', >>>> 'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware', >>>> 'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware', >>>> 'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware', >>>> 'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware') >>>> >>>> >>>> Traceback: >>>> File >>>> "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py" in >>>> get_response >>>> 111. response = callback(request, >>>> *callback_args, **callback_kwargs) >>>> File >>>> "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/contrib/admin/options.py" in >>>> wrapper >>>> 307. return self.admin_site.admin_view(view)(*args, >>>> **kwargs) >>>> File >>>> "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/utils/decorators.py" in >>>> _wrapped_view >>>> 93. response = view_func(request, *args, **kwargs) >>>> File >>>> "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/views/decorators/cache.py" >>>> in _wrapped_view_func >>>> 79. response = view_func(request, *args, **kwargs) >>>> File >>>> "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/contrib/admin/sites.py" in >>>> inner >>>> 197. return view(request, *args, **kwargs) >>>> File >>>> "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/utils/decorators.py" in >>>> _wrapper >>>> 28. return bound_func(*args, **kwargs) >>>> File >>>> "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/utils/decorators.py" in >>>> _wrapped_view >>>> 93. response = view_func(request, *args, **kwargs) >>>> File >>>> "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/utils/decorators.py" in >>>> bound_func >>>> 24. return func(self, *args2, **kwargs2) >>>> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/db/transaction.py" >>>> in inner >>>> 217. res = func(*args, **kwargs) >>>> File >>>> "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/contrib/admin/options.py" in >>>> add_view >>>> 882. self.save_model(request, new_object, form, >>>> change=False) >>>> File >>>> "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/contrib/admin/options.py" in >>>> save_model >>>> 665. obj.save() >>>> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/db/models/base.py" >>>> in save >>>> 460. self.save_base(using=using, force_insert=force_insert, >>>> force_update=force_update) >>>> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/db/models/base.py" >>>> in save_base >>>> 543. for f in meta.local_fields if not >>>> isinstance(f, AutoField)] >>>> File >>>> "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/db/models/fields/files.py" >>>> in pre_save >>>> 255. file.save(file.name, file, save=False) >>>> File >>>> "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/db/models/fields/files.py" >>>> in save >>>> 92. self.name = self.storage.save(name, content) >>>> File >>>> "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/files/storage.py" in >>>> save >>>> 49. name = self._save(name, content) >>>> File >>>> "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/files/storage.py" in >>>> _save >>>> 166. os.makedirs(directory) >>>> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/os.py" in makedirs >>>> 150. makedirs(head, mode) >>>> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/os.py" in makedirs >>>> 150. makedirs(head, mode) >>>> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/os.py" in makedirs >>>> 150. makedirs(head, mode) >>>> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/os.py" in makedirs >>>> 150. makedirs(head, mode) >>>> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/os.py" in makedirs >>>> 157. mkdir(name, mode) >>>> >>>> Exception Type: OSError at /admin/myapp/course/add/ >>>> Exception Value: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/projects' >>>> >>>> I'm on Ubuntu 11.10, using Django 1.3.1. Any thoughts? Thanks. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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 django-users@googlegroups.com. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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 >>>> django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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 django-users@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Jonathan D. 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