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24510	FileField.upload_to documentation misleading	Markus Bertheau	Matt Seymour	"In https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/models/fields/#django.db.models.FileField.upload_to it says:

> A local filesystem path that will be appended to your MEDIA_ROOT setting to determine the value of the url attribute.

While this may be true with the default storage, it's misleading because it suggests that this behaviour (append to MEDIA_ROOT to get the URL) can't be changed. It's also the first sentence and main explanation for `upload_to`, which increases the severity of the misleading.

In particular, you might want to make uploaded files not available to the general public, i.e. use a storage with `base_url` set to `None`. The first sentence sounds like you have to hack around django to implement that."	Cleanup/optimization	closed	Documentation	dev	Normal	fixed			Accepted	1	0	0	0	1	0