Question
I deployed my Django website on your web server. I am Facing permission errors while my python script is trying to read mp4 files.
- Posted on April 30, 2019
- DigitalOceanUbuntu 18.04
Asked by moawf
Why am I facing permission errors when my python script tries to load MP4 files after downloading them if necessary. Kindly suggest some remedy as soon as possible. I will be really grateful to you.
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Greetings!
It is important that the files be readable by the user that is running the application. I can’t tell you exactly how to tell what that user is, but I can give you an idea how to find it. Let’s take the service “syslogd” on my server and find out what user it runs as:
So in my case, syslogd is run by the user “syslog” on the system. If the syslogd service needed to access a file, the easiest method would be to set ownership of that file. Let’s say that file is “/var/www/html/video.mp4” for my example. I would run this:
Hopefully that can help to apply the theory to your situation.
Jarland