problem writting to file from django view.

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I am trying to open and write to a file from a view in django using f = open(os.path.join(settings.MEDIA_URL, 'file.txt'), 'w').

I am able to able to open and write to the file from manage.py shell but when running on webfaction the command above gives the error "[Errno 13] Permission denied: '/media/file.txt'".

Because I am able to access the file from the python shell I was thinking it might be an issue with the WSGI script or the apache settings on webfaction. Any suggestions?

asked 07 Nov '11, 16:28

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0	Are you maybe wanting to use MEDIA_ROOT instead of MEDIA_URL? permanent link answered 07 Nov '11, 16:54 bmeyer71 ♦♦ 1.5k●3●6●13 accept rate: 33%

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