Flask-Uploads IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
So, I've been trying to add an image uploader to my code, but I've been running into issues. Even though I thought I had my upload_folder configured properly, I keep getting errors like: IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/static/uploads/compressor.jpg' even though the file/directory exists.
Here's the code:
in config.py
UPLOAD_FOLDER = 'static/uploads'
in init.py
app.config['UPLOAD_FOLDER'] = UPLOAD_FOLDER
in views.py
@app.route('/fileupload', methods=['GET', 'POST'])
def upload_file():
if request.method == 'POST':
#check if the post request has the file part
if 'file' not in request.files:
flash('No file part')
return redirect(request.url)
file = request.files['file']
# if user does not select file, browser also
#submit an empty part without filename
if file.filename == '':
flash('No selected file')
return redirect(request.url)
if file and allowed_file(file.filename):
filename = secure_filename(file.filename)
file.save(os.path.join(app.config['UPLOAD_FOLDER'], filename))
return redirect(url_for('uploaded_file',
filename=filename))
return '''
<!doctype html>
<title>Upload new File</title>
<h>UPload new file</h1>
<form action="" method=post enctype=multipart/form-data>
<p><input type=file name=file>
<input type=submit value=Upload>
</form>
'''
@app.route('/uploads/<filename>')
def uploaded_file(filename):
return send_from_directory(app.config['UPLOAD_FOLDER'],
filename)
My folder structure is as follows
/project folder
--/app
----/static
--------/uploads
----/templates
----_init__.py
----views.py
--config.py
When I use /tmp/ to store it in memory the uploader works no problem. I assume it's not looking in the proper path for my folder. Can anyone help here? I'm a very amateur python developer.
Answer
Both /tmp and /static/uploads/.., are absolute paths. And your code is looking in the / folder instead of looking in your project's folder. You should use the absolute path to point at your folder /path/to/your/project/static/uploads/.. or use a path relative to the code being executed such as ./static/uploads.
You can also use the following snippet to generate the absolute path:
from os.path import join, dirname, realpath
UPLOADS_PATH = join(dirname(realpath(__file__)), 'static/uploads/..')