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SOLVED:Uploading images from Django-Admin

Vicente G. Reyes on May 09, 2019

I'm almost done fixing my Django portfolio when I bumped into a problem when choosing a photo for one of the pages of my site The problem here i...

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Periklis Gkolias • May 9 '19

I am not in front of a computer but I would start with docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/ref/...

Vicente G. Reyes • May 9 '19

Great! I've been wondering what I was missing on my code to upload files from the admin. Will check this the first thing tomorrow. Cheers!

Vicente G. Reyes • May 11 '19

What I'm trying to do is I'm trying to upload images from the admin and access it thru this dropdown(seen on the video/photo) but when I click it, it does not show anything.

Periklis Gkolias • May 11 '19

What do the logs say? I am afraid I cannot help with guessing. :)

Vicente G. Reyes • May 12 '19 • Edited

When I use this

image = models.FileField(upload_to='static/')

it returns a

Server Error (500)

on the admin.

When I use

image = models.FileField("/img")

It return a

Server Error (500)

on the site.

When I use

models.FilePathField(path=os.path.join(settings.BASE_DIR, 'home/projects/static/img'))

it returns a

Server Error (500)

on the admin.

Im confused. I just want to upload images from the admin to the portfolio page of my site.

Periklis Gkolias • May 12 '19

As explained a couple of times above, those are generic errors and without more specific info or code I am afraid I cannot be of much help, if my only weapon is guessing.

There are various tutorials online. Please have a look and if you have any specific questions please ask again.

A great tutorial that will help: wsvincent.com/django-image-uploads/

Vicente G. Reyes • May 14 '19

Hey Rhett,

Thank you for this. I'm doing a tutorial now and the guy used ImageField which made sense in what I was trying to achieve.

The debug on my project is set to False and the ALLOWED_HOST is set to my localhost. I think the error might be inside the FilePathField line of code. When I use

 image = models.FilePathField(path=os.path.join(settings.BASE_DIR, 'home/projects/static/img'))

it returns the 500 error on the project page, but when I use

image = models.FileField(upload_to='uploads/')

it runs as smooth as silk.

The MEDIA_ROOT & MEDIA_URL would be set now thanks to you.

Cheers!

Fiyinfoluwa Akinsiku • Mar 12 '20

Hi! I am currently working on this same project and I have the same issue. I've searched the internet (how I found this post) but couldn't get a clear solution. How did you resolve it? Thanks.