django ckeditor image upload

Question

I'm using Django-ckeditor in my website.

I'm especially using

RichTextUploadingField()

in my model. and other option just works fine, except image upload.

1. Error Message

I'm getting an error message of

"Incorrect Server Response" and especially, chrome devtools indicates that

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ckeditor.js:21 [CKEDITOR] Error code: filetools-response-error.

ckeditor.js:21 [CKEDITOR] For more information about this error go to https://docs.ckeditor.com/ckeditor4/docs/#!/guide/dev_errors-section-filetools-response-error

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2. Guess

I have tried uploading images using ckeditor in my admin page,

authorized as superuser in django, it works.

However, logged in as the normal user account, I've tried the same thing, but it does not work.

So my guess is it has some kind of authorization problem. But I can't figure out where to start debugging in my django-ckeditor.

What things should I be checking? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

This is happening because the default urls are decorated with @staff_member_required(https://github.com/django-ckeditor/django-ckeditor/blob/master/ckeditor_uploader/urls.py). To avoid this, instead of including the urls like so url(r'^ckeditor/', include('ckeditor_uploader.urls')) you could define them one by one in your urls.py with the login_required decorator:

from django.conf.urls import url
from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required

from ckeditor_uploader import views

urlpatterns = [
     .....your other urls
    url(r'^ckeditor/upload/', login_required(views.upload), name='ckeditor_upload'),
    url(r'^ckeditor/browse/', never_cache(login_required(views.browse)), name='ckeditor_browse'),
]

Like this you are limiting the uploads to all users that are logged in.

Answer 2

Add following imports in the project urls.py:

from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required
from django.views.decorators.cache import never_cache
from ckeditor_uploader import views as ckeditor_views

Replace the following row in the urls.py:

path('ckeditor/', include('ckeditor_uploader.urls')),

with

path('ckeditor/upload/', login_required(ckeditor_views.upload), name='ckeditor_upload'),
path('ckeditor/browse/', never_cache(login_required(ckeditor_views.browse)), name='ckeditor_browse'),