Django file browser doesn't work

Question

I have installed Django file browser and added grappelli and filebrowser to my installed apps. And did every thing said in documention but when I browse http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/filebrowser/ I got 404 page not found error. What's the problem? I configured my media settings like this:

# Media files
MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'media')
MEDIA_URL = '/media/'
ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX = '/media/admin/'
FILEBROWSER_DIRECTORY = '/media/'

Answer 1

The problem is your FILEBROWSER_DIRECTORY setting. It should have absolute path.

Unfortunately, the error is hidden by the nasty 400 Bad Request, as explained in this ticket.

Answer 2

Just solved the exact same problem, and it's the oldest one in the book: permissions
(facepalm)

• make sure your media dir is chmod-ed to 755
• create media/uploads dir and also chmod it to 755

In settings.py, I don't use the FILEBROWSER_DIRECTORY (I guess that uploads is the default)

I really think that throwing 400 Bad Request is utterly useless and anoying, but oh well...

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Just a related note: I don't think there is anything at /admin/filebrowser/, it just gives me a 404. Please correct me it I'm missing something here :)