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django.core.exceptions.SuspiciousFileOperation: The joined path is located outside of the base path component

This worked fine everytime used to do django websites but this time it is giving me an error.
Settings.py
STATICFILES_DIRS = [
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'portfolio/static/')
]
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR , 'static')
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'media')
MEDIA_URL = '/media/'
I have a profile.jpg in my directory Portfolio-Project/Portfolio/static/profile.jpg. It should collectstatic from here and paste the staticfiles in Portfolio-project/static as mentioned in my code. but it is giving ,me some error.
Error After using the command "Python manage.py collectstatic"
django.core.exceptions.SuspiciousFileOperation: The joined path
(C:\Users\Kiran\Desktop\portfolio-project\portfolio\static\Profile.jpg) is
located outside of the base path component
(C:\Users\Kiran\Desktop\portfolio- project\portfolio\static\)
Please Help.
Thanks

In your line:
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'portfolio/static/')
Delete the last slash:
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'portfolio/static')
Anyway, this is the ideal:
STATICFILES_DIRS = (
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static'),
)
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'media/')
MEDIA_URL = '/media/'

I recently faced this error but it‘s actually simple:
Chances are you downloaded a Template, here is the solution:
First you have to check your css file for stuff like relative links
For example your CSS might be referencing a file outside your django project itself.
e.g. backround:url('...\image\Profile.jpg') this actually worked for me
Note:
The key fact is just to check your CSS or (maybe js) file first if it‘s a referencing file that you‘re not using or file that is referring to something that is not in your django project directory.

CSS is not showing in the admin page -Django

So I upload my site to digitalocean and when I went to the admin page the CSS was not showing
I visit all these sites but nothing seems to work
Django doc-static files
Pythonanywhere-DjangoStaticFiles
StackOverflow -why my django admin site does not have the css style
I set up my STATIC_ROOT and STATIC_URL, and then I ran
python manage.py collectstatic
And here is my seting
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, '/home/django/django_project/django_project/static')
STATICFILES_DIRS = [
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static/'),
]

You are specifying an Absolute Path for your join.
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, arg2) means join the current directory that is being executed and append the second argument.

add these lines into your settings.py file
STATICFILES_DIRS = (
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static/'),
)

Django can't find my static files after changing to production settings and back

I've been trying to deploy my site this weekend and have thus been meddling with the settings. One of the unpleasant surprises while doing this has been that my static files have seemingly stopped working on my site. My CSS files and javascript files don't work anymore, as if they aren't found by the site. The only thing I can remember doing with regards to static files was inserting this into settings.py:
# The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment.
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'staticfiles')
# The URL to use when referring to static files (where they will be served from)
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
I removed these settings and replaced them with the original
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
but alas, the problem remains. Why isn't Django finding my static files anymore?
PS: As I'm a noob, I don't know exactly what is relevant from my project for you guys to see, but do let me know and I shall provide additional info.

Okay, update your settings.py as below:
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATICFILES_DIRS = [
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "static_my_proj"),
]
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(BASE_DIR), "static_cdn", "static_root")
Now, that you have done that make dir called static_my_proj, at the same level where your manage.py file is.
Okay, now create new dir called static_cdn just one level up, i.e. one level up to manage.py file.
Now, create dir called static_root inside static_cdn and that is all you have to do. Make sure you run python manage.py collectstatic
NOTE:
static_my_proj is for development or DEBUG = True and static_cdn is for production or DEBUG = True. handy, right?
Also, you can add media file the same way, just add,
MEDIA_URL = '/media/'
MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(BASE_DIR), "static_cdn", "media_root")
and make new dir called media_root under static_cdn.
EDIT:
Copy all your admin files to static dir manually.
If you have virtualenv than go to <virtualenv-dir>/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/static and copy dir named admin.
It should work even if DEBUG=False
Hope this helps.

Can't use django-compress with Heroku

I have a Django 1.9.6 site deployed to Heroku. When DEBUG=False I was getting a server error (500). The logs contained no useful information, so I tried running it with DEBUG=True. Now it works fine. I think the issue may be tied to my scss file processing, which really confuses me and I was struggling with. I recently--among other things--added COMPRESS_OFFLINE = True to my settings files, and commenting that out seems to alleviate the problem (although then my scss files don't work).
Some of my static settings.py. Let me know if you need more--so much of this is a mystery to me. I was trying to follow this as best as I could.
BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'staticfiles')
MEDIA_URL = "/media/"
MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "media/")
STATICFILES_FINDERS = (
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
# other finders..
'compressor.finders.CompressorFinder',
)
STATICFILES_STORAGE = 'whitenoise.django.GzipManifestStaticFilesStorage'
MEDIA_URL = "/media/"
MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "media/")
in urls.py:
urlpatterns += static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)
urlpatterns += [
url(r'^media/(?P<path>.*)$', serve, {
'document_root': settings.MEDIA_ROOT
}),
]
urlpatterns += staticfiles_urlpatterns()
EDIT:
I've gotten logging to work, and I've confirmed that it's a compress error. I'm getting the error message:
Internal Server Error: /
OfflineGenerationError at /
You have offline compression enabled but key "171c3b7763dbc51a465d996f7d920cf5" is missing from offline manifest. You may need to run "python manage.py compress".
which is the same thing I've gotten locally, except running the suggested command solved it. Running heroku run python manage.py compress doesn't have an effect (no errors running it, though)

The manifest generated by compress was stored in my .gitignore and therefore the one on production was stale. Adding it to the git repository fixed everything.

First off set value for ALLOW_HOSTS, this can't be blank when debug is off.
ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['.mydomain.com', '.2nddomain.com']
Because you use compress plugins:
SET
COMPRESS_ENABLED = True
COMPRESS_OFFLINE = True
# this where the collectstatic and compress result output
# point your static alias to here
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static')
# in your production env: activate ur virtual environment then run the compress statics command
python manage.py compress
python manage.py collectstatic
When Debug is off all exceptions is suppressed for security reason, set admin email in the setting file to let django email all un-caught exception
SERVER_EMAIL = 'ur#from-email-address.com'
ADMINS = (
('Exceptions Email', 'destination#email.com'),
)

Add this to your settings.py inside the loggers section and it should give you more information (this is what helped point me into solving the same problem).
"django.request": {
"handlers": ["console"],
"level": "ERROR",
"propagate": True
}
For what it's worth, here are my similar settings.py settings:
MEDIA_URL = "http://%s.s3.amazonaws.com/" % (AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME)
BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
STATIC_ROOT = 'staticfiles'
STATIC_URL = os.getenv("DJANGO_STATIC_HOST", "") + "/static/"
if DEBUG:
STATIC_URL = "/static/"
STATICFILES_DIRS = (
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static'),
)
Note: I have no MEDIA_ROOT or STATICFILES_FINDERS and I'm also using Whitenoise with CloudFront for my static file handling

Today I tried to share a website with 'PythonAnywhere'. I have encountered the same problem and have fixed the problem with 'Allowed_Host'.
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/ref/settings/#allowed-hosts
settings.py
ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['*']

Error shows when opening saved image in django admin

I am facing some very basic issue.
I saved some detail in my django model including a profile picture.
When i open django admin then i can saw i link for the image which i have saved.But when i click on that link it show me error.My image is not founding.
How can i resolve the issue.
settings.py
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "staticfiles")
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATICFILES_DIRS = (
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "staticfiles"),
)
MEDIA_URL = '/media/'
MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(STATIC_ROOT, 'media')
link showing me in django admin
media/media/ind_kQRDi6b.jpg
when i hit enter to open this this image it hit 127.0.0.1/8000/media/media/ind_kQRDi6b.jpg
And error show Page not found

Make sure that your url is correct. Like , http://127.0.0.1:8000/media/image.jpg