The problem i'm facing is simple to present. I hope its solution is simple too.

I created my droplet with the django onclick installation. Worked perfect. I uploaded my own project, and got it working by tweaking the /etc/init/gunicorn.conf file accordingly to match my project python path and name. That also works.

Now, when I upload a file, via my views or using django admin, I get,

[Errno 13] Permission Denied

Did some reading (lots of them), figured how to check, (is it the group?) my directories. I compared the django_project folder with mine, and there are differences

Running

ls -lha 

on /django_project/django_project gives

drwxr-xr-x 3 django django 4.0K Jan 14 10:42 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 django django 4.0K Jan 14 10:42 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 django django 4.0K Jan 29 15:11 django_project
-rw-r--r-- 1 django django  257 Jan 14 10:42 manage.py

Running same command in my project folder gives me:

drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4.0K Jan 31 17:13 .
drwxr-xr-x  5 root root 4.0K Jan 31 17:13 ..
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 4.0K Jan 31 17:13 blog
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4.0K Jan 31 17:13 CACHE
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 4.0K Jan 31 17:13 central
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 4.0K Jan 31 17:13 commonsconvert
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Jan 31 17:13 Dummy
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 2.2K Jan 31 17:13 fabfile.py
drwxr-xr-x  8 root root 4.0K Jan 31 17:13 .git
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   62 Jan 31 17:13 .gitignore
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  252 Jan 31 17:13 manage.py
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 4.0K Jan 31 17:13 placeholder
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Jan 31 17:13 Portfolio
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 4.0K Jan 31 17:13 quickapi
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   81 Jan 31 17:13 requirements.txt
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4.0K Jan 31 17:13 static
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 4.0K Jan 31 17:13 threeD
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 4.0K Jan 31 17:13 wikitips

Question: How do I get gunicorn to have write access to my own project folder? Does it need to be in the django (group?) or what?

Please help.