Django upload_to outside of MEDIA_ROOT

Question

My deployment script overwrites the media and source directories which means I have to move the uploads directory out of the media directory, and replace it after the upload has been extracted.

How can I instruct django to upload to /uploads/ instead of /media/?

So far I keep getting django Suspicious Operation errors! :(

I suppose another solution might be a symlink?

Many thanks, Toby.

Answer 1

check this out.

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/custom-file-storage/

Answer 2

Thornomad, I did the following:

upload_storage = FileSystemStorage(location=UPLOAD_ROOT, base_url='/uploads')

image = models.ImageField(upload_to='/images', storage=upload_storage)

UPLOAD_ROOT is defined in my settings.py file: /foo/bar/webfolder/uploads

I found a great example here: http://abing.gotdns.com/posts/2009/django-file-upload-handling-examples/

Hope that helps! Toby.