Upload a valid image. The file you uploaded was either not an image or a corrupted image.

Hello everybody!
I'm a Django newbie. I have a Django website with a model that has an ImageField. Whenever I try to upload a .png or .jpg image I get the message: "Upload a valid image. The file you uploaded was either not an image or a corrupted image."

According to this thread, it is because PIL (Python Imaging Library) cannot find the system libraries needed. The thread mentions two ways to fix this. The first way involves editing setup.py for PIL and I couldn't get it to work. The other way involves creating symboling links to the libraries so the installer finds them. This I cannot do because I don't have sudo rights. I found the libraries on Webfaction's server and the commands would be:

sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/libfreetype.so /usr/lib/
sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/libz.so /usr/lib/
sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/libjpeg.so /usr/lib/

Does anyone know of a third solution, or do I need to open a ticket?

Thanks in advance!

asked May 13 '12 at 22:52

sterneberg
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Hi sterneberg,

Installing third party libraries on your WebFaction hosted sites is quite straightforward. To install a package to your home directory, simply follow these steps:

Make sure that a library directory exists for the version of Python you're using. E.g. mkdir -p $HOME/lib/python2.7
Use easy_install or pip to install the package. E.g. to use easy_install to install PIL simply run easy_install-2.7 PIL (remember to replace 2.7 with whatever Python version you're using.)

For more information please see the docs at:

http://docs.webfaction.com/software/python.html#installing-python-packages

If you have any other questions please don't hesitate to ask.

Regards,

Wayne K

WebFaction Support

answered May 13 '12 at 23:31

waynek ♦♦
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Hi Wayne,

Thank you for the response.

PIL is installed and works for BMP images, but not for PNG and JPG, because PIL could not find the system libraries during installation. This is a bug in the PIL software that (according to my understanding) must be remedied using one of the methods I mentioned.

Using BMP images only on the website would make load times a lot longer, so I'm hoping to avoid it.

Thanks again

(May 18 '12 at 05:14) sterneberg

0	Try installing PIL according to the community question How to install PIL with truetype support. It should find the JPEG libraries and verify it when running the `python2.7 selftest.py` command. answered May 18 '12 at 05:31 iliasr ♦♦ 701●3 edited May 18 '12 at 05:31

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