From 6586b65b263e10e450b3d58d6fc984e9f553eacb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Will Barton <william.barton@cfpb.gov>
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2016 15:45:41 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Allow MEDIA_ROOT to be set by env var

---
 .env_SAMPLE                  | 6 ++++++
 cfgov/cfgov/settings/base.py | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.env_SAMPLE b/.env_SAMPLE
index 36dc18843e0..7e1c1ce411c 100755
--- a/.env_SAMPLE
+++ b/.env_SAMPLE
@@ -11,6 +11,12 @@ export DJANGO_STAGING_HOSTNAME='content.localhost'
 #export DJANGO_STATIC_ROOT=<path_to_static_files>
 export DJANGO_HTTP_PORT=8000
 
+##################################
+# Django Media Storage (optional).
+##################################
+
+# export MEDIA_ROOT=<path_to_media_root>
+
 #############################################
 # V1 - application feature related variables.
 #############################################
diff --git a/cfgov/cfgov/settings/base.py b/cfgov/cfgov/settings/base.py
index f6dfe6a45f3..4cdab33ee6a 100644
--- a/cfgov/cfgov/settings/base.py
+++ b/cfgov/cfgov/settings/base.py
@@ -177,7 +177,8 @@
 # Absolute path to the directory static files should be collected to.
 STATIC_ROOT = os.environ.get('DJANGO_STATIC_ROOT', '/var/www/html/static')
 
-MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT, 'f')
+MEDIA_ROOT = os.environ.get('MEDIA_ROOT', 
+                            os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT, 'f'))
 MEDIA_URL = '/f/'
 
 # List of finder classes that know how to find static files in