[Fixed]-Form uploads image to 'media' folder when it should upload to 'static'

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I’m confused when you say the following:

I was expecting the Form that is linked to the model to upload it to
the same location.

If you save an instance of your model directly with that ImageField, then the file you saved should end up in your MEDIA_ROOT.

This is how Django’s FileFields work by default: they do not send things to STATIC_ROOT.

Staticfiles are explicitly for site-content, not user-uploaded things.

You can’t even set your STATIC_ROOT and MEDIA_ROOT to be the same directory, because they serve different purposes and Django’s settings-checker will throw an error if so. Here’s that error in the code:

if ((settings.MEDIA_ROOT and settings.STATIC_ROOT) and
            (settings.MEDIA_ROOT == settings.STATIC_ROOT)):
        raise ImproperlyConfigured("The MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT "
                                   "settings must have different values")

I think a better question is: why are you creating a model that you want to use to store staticfiles?

👤erewok

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