Django MEDIA URL and MEDIA ROOT

Question

I m trying to upload an image via the Django admin and then view that image either in a page on the frontend or just via a URL   Note this is all on my local machine   My settings are as follows   MEDIA ROOT     home dan mysite media    MEDIA URL     media     I have set the upload to parameter to  images  and the file has been correctly uploaded to the directory     home dan mysite media images myimage png    However  when I try to access the image at the following URL   http   127 0 0 1 8000 media images myimage png   I get a 404 error   Do I need to setup specific URLconf patters for uploaded media   Any advice appreciated   Thanks

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Here are the changes I had to make to deliver PDFs for the django-publications app, using Django 1.10.6:

Used the same definitions for media directories as you, in settings.py:

MEDIA_ROOT = '/home/user/mysite/media/'

MEDIA_URL = '/media/'

As provided by @thisisashwanipandey, in the project's main urls.py:

from django.conf import settings
from django.conf.urls.static import static

urlpatterns = [
    # ... the rest of your URLconf goes here ...
] + static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)

and a modification of the answer provided by @r-allela, in settings.py:

TEMPLATES = [
    {
        'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
        'DIRS': [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates')],
        'APP_DIRS': True,
        'OPTIONS': {
            'context_processors': [
                # ... the rest of your context_processors goes here ...
                'django.template.context_processors.media',
            ],
         },
    },
]

User · Answer

Please read the official Django DOC carefully and you will find the most fit answer   The best and easist way to solve this is like below   from django conf import settings from django conf urls static import static  urlpatterns   patterns               the rest of your URLconf goes here         static settings MEDIA URL  document root settings MEDIA ROOT

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This is what I did to achieve image rendering in DEBUG   False mode in Python 3 6 with Django 1 11  from django views static import serve urlpatterns     url r  media   P lt path gt        serve   document root   settings MEDIA ROOT      other paths

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UPDATE for Django    1 7  Per Django 2 1 documentation  Serving files uploaded by a user during development  from django conf import settings from django conf urls static import static  urlpatterns   patterns               the rest of your URLconf goes here         static settings MEDIA URL  document root settings MEDIA ROOT    You no longer need if settings DEBUG as Django will handle ensuring this is only used in Debug mode     ORIGINAL answer for Django  lt   1 6  Try putting this into your urls py  from django conf import settings        your normal urlpatterns here  if settings DEBUG        static files  images  css  javascript  etc       urlpatterns    patterns              r  media   P lt path gt         django views static serve              document root   settings MEDIA ROOT      With this you can serve the static media from Django when DEBUG   True  when you run on local computer  but you can let your web server configuration serve static media when you go to production and DEBUG   False

User · Answer

Another problem you are likely to face after setting up all your URLconf patterns is that the variable    MEDIA URL    won t work in your templates  To fix this in your settings py  make sure you add      django core context processors media   in your TEMPLATE CONTEXT PROCESSORS

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Your setting is all right  Some web servers require to specify the media and static folder files specifically  For example in pythonanywhere com you have to go to the  Web  section and add the url od the media folders and static folder  For example      URL                     Directory                  static              home Saidmamad discoverthepamirs static       accounts static     home Saidmamad discoverthepamirs accounts static      media              home Saidmamad discoverthepamirs discoverthepamirs media       I know that it is late  but just to help those who visit this link because of the same problem

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Here What i did in Django 2 0  Set  First MEDIA ROOT an MEDIA URL in setting py  MEDIA ROOT   os path join BASE DIR   data       data  is my media folder MEDIA URL     media     Then Enable the media context processors  in TEMPLATE CONTEXT PROCESSORS by adding   TEMPLATES            BACKEND    django template backends django DjangoTemplates        DIRS            APP DIRS   True       OPTIONS              context processors                  here add your context Processors              django template context processors media                            Your  media context processor is enabled  Now every RequestContext will contain a variable MEDIA URL   Now  you can access  this in your template name html   lt p gt  lt img src     MEDIA URL    image 001 jpeg   gt  lt  p gt

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This if for Django 1 10      if settings DEBUG      urlpatterns    staticfiles urlpatterns       urlpatterns    static settings MEDIA URL  document root settings MEDIA ROOT

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Do I need to setup specific URLconf patters for uploaded media    Yes  For development  it s as easy as adding this to your URLconf   if settings DEBUG      urlpatterns    patterns  django views static            r media   P lt path gt        serve     document root   settings MEDIA ROOT            However  for production  you ll want to serve the media using Apache  lighttpd  nginx  or your preferred web server

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For Django 1 9  you need to add the following code as per the documentation     from django conf import settings from django conf urls static import static  urlpatterns               the rest of your URLconf goes here         static settings MEDIA URL  document root settings MEDIA ROOT    For more info  you can refer here   https   docs djangoproject com en 1 9 howto static-files  serving-files-uploaded-by-a-user-during-development

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Following the steps mentioned above for   3 0 for Debug mode  urlpatterns             static settings MEDIA URL  document root settings MEDIA ROOT    And also the part that caught me out  the above static URL only worked in my main project urls py file  I was first attempting to add to my app  and wondering why I couldn t see the images   Lastly make sure you set the following   MEDIA ROOT   os path join BASE DIR   media   MEDIA URL     media

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Adding to  Micah Carrick answer for django 1 8   if settings DEBUG    urlpatterns append url r  media   P lt path gt         django views static serve     document root   settings MEDIA ROOT

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at least  for Django 1 8   If you use  if settings DEBUG    urlpatterns append url r  media   P lt path gt         django views static serve     document root   settings MEDIA ROOT      as described above  make sure that no  catch all  url pattern  directing to a default view  comes before that in urlpatterns       As  append will put the added scheme to the end of the list  it will of course only be tested if no previous url pattern matches  You can avoid that by using something like this where the  catch all  url pattern is added at the very end  independent from the if statement   if settings DEBUG      urlpatterns append url r  media   P lt path gt         django views static serve     document root   settings MEDIA ROOT     urlpatterns append url r      views home   name  home

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If you r using python 3 0  then configure your project as below Setting STATIC DIR   BASE DIR    static  MEDIA DIR   BASE DIR    media  MEDIA ROOT   MEDIA DIR MEDIA URL     media    Main Urls from django conf import settings from django conf urls static import static  urlspatterns               static settings MEDIA URL  document root settings MEDIA ROOT

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