Using Heroku for Django Media Files

Question

On the heroku domain, I am not able to load my Media(Images Saved by using ImageField property) file images. However, I am able to see the images saved in the static field i

Answer 1

The Heroku filesystem is ephemeral, so dynos boot with a clean copy of the filesystem from the most recent deploy. Here are some ways to work around this:

1. AWS S3
2. If you don't want to set up an account with AWS to create an S3 bucket, Heroku has add-ons that handle storage and processing of static assets

For more details on this issue, see https://help.heroku.com/K1PPS2WM/why-are-my-file-uploads-missing-deleted