Django Error (13, 'Permission denied') - django

Question

I'm been working on this Photo Organizer and Sharing App Part I at http://lightbird.net/dbe/photo.html. I'm trying to generate a thumbnail and when I do . I get this error.
I have Windows Vista.
IOError at /admin/photo/image/add/
(13, 'Permission denied')
Request Method: POST
Request URL: http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/photo/image/add/
Django Version: 1.4.3
Exception Type: IOError
Exception Value: (13, 'Permission denied')
Exception Location:C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\PIL\Image.py in save, line 1399
Python Executable:C:\Python26\python.exe
Python Version: 2.6.0
Python Path:
['C:\\djcode\\mysite',
'C:\\Python26\\python26.zip',
'C:\\Python26\\DLLs',
'C:\\Python26\\lib',
'C:\\Python26\\lib\\plat-win',
'C:\\Python26\\lib\\lib-tk',
'C:\\Python26',
'C:\\Python26\\lib\\site-packages',
'C:\\Python26\\lib\\site-packages\\PIL']
Server time: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 23:49:34 +1100
My models.py is
from django.db import models
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
from django.contrib import admin
from string import join
from django.core.files import File
from os.path import join as pjoin
from tempfile import *
import os
from PIL import Image as PImage
from mysite.settings import MEDIA_ROOT
class Album(models.Model):
title = models.CharField(max_length=60)
public = models.BooleanField(default=False)
def __unicode__(self):
return self.title
class Tag(models.Model):
tag = models.CharField(max_length=50)
def __unicode__(self):
return self.tag
class Image(models.Model):
title = models.CharField(max_length=60, blank=True, null=True)
image = models.FileField(upload_to="images/")
tags = models.ManyToManyField(Tag, blank=True)
albums = models.ManyToManyField(Album, blank=True)
created = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
rating = models.IntegerField(default=50)
width = models.IntegerField(blank=True, null=True)
height = models.IntegerField(blank=True, null=True)
user = models.ForeignKey(User, null=True, blank=True)
thumbnail2 = models.ImageField(upload_to="images/", blank=True, null=True)
def __unicode__(self):
return self.image.name
def save(self, *args, **kwargs):
"""Save image dimensions."""
super(Image, self).save(*args, **kwargs)
im = PImage.open(pjoin(MEDIA_ROOT, self.image.name))
self.width, self.height = im.size
# large thumbnail
fn, ext = os.path.splitext(self.image.name)
im.thumbnail((128,128), PImage.ANTIALIAS)
thumb_fn = fn + "-thumb2" + ext
tf2 = NamedTemporaryFile()
im.save(tf2.name, "JPEG")
self.thumbnail2.save(thumb_fn, File(open(tf2.name)), save=False)
tf2.close()
# small thumbnail
im.thumbnail((40,40), PImage.ANTIALIAS)
thumb_fn = fn + "-thumb" + ext
tf = NamedTemporaryFile()
im.save(tf.name, "JPEG")
self.thumbnail.save(thumb_fn, File(open(tf.name)), save=False)
tf.close()
super(Image, self).save(*args, ** kwargs)
def size(self):
"""Image size."""
return "%s x %s" % (self.width, self.height)
def __unicode__(self):
return self.image.name
def tags_(self):
lst = [x[1] for x in self.tags.values_list()]
return str(join(lst, ', '))
def albums_(self):
lst = [x[1] for x in self.albums.values_list()]
return str(join(lst, ', '))
def thumbnail(self):
return """<img border="0" alt="" src="/media/%s" height="40" />""" % (
(self.image.name, self.image.name))
thumbnail.allow_tags = True
class AlbumAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
search_fields = ["title"]
list_display = ["title"]
class TagAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
list_display = ["tag"]
class ImageAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
search_fields = ["title"]
list_display = ["__unicode__", "title", "user", "rating", "size", "tags_", "albums_","thumbnail", "created"]
list_filter = ["tags", "albums"]
def save_model(self, request, obj, form, change):
obj.user = request.user
obj.save()
The problem is here:
from django.core.files import File
from os.path import join as pjoin
from tempfile import *
class Image(models.Model):
# ...
thumbnail2 = models.ImageField(upload_to="images/", blank=True, null=True)
def save(self, *args, **kwargs):
"""Save image dimensions."""
super(Image, self).save(*args, **kwargs)
im = PImage.open(pjoin(MEDIA_ROOT, self.image.name))
self.width, self.height = im.size
# large thumbnail
fn, ext = os.path.splitext(self.image.name)
im.thumbnail((128,128), PImage.ANTIALIAS)
thumb_fn = fn + "-thumb2" + ext
tf2 = NamedTemporaryFile()
im.save(tf2.name, "JPEG")
self.thumbnail2.save(thumb_fn, File(open(tf2.name)), save=False)
tf2.close()
# small thumbnail
im.thumbnail((40,40), PImage.ANTIALIAS)
thumb_fn = fn + "-thumb" + ext
tf = NamedTemporaryFile()
im.save(tf.name, "JPEG")
self.thumbnail.save(thumb_fn, File(open(tf.name)), save=False)
tf.close()
super(Image, self).save(*args, ** kwargs)
How do I fix this error?

Answer 1

It looks to me like django doesn't have the permissions it needs to access your MEDIA_ROOT folder.
Have a look at your MEDIA_ROOT settings in your settings.py file. Then check the permissions on the folder (something like ls -lsa /path/to/media_root from a bash shell). Make sure the user running django as write permission to the folder.
Also, as asermax points out, make sure you have created an images directory within your MEDIA_ROOT.
Have a look at the documentation for serving static files particularly the section on serving other directories
UPDATE
Perhaps it's this issue. Try replacing im.save(tf2.name, "JPEG") with im.save(tf2, "JPEG")

Answer 2

set SELinux permisions
http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/13PermissionDenied
take a look to this, it may be there the solution