Accessing “Media” files in Django

Question

I\'d like to love Django, but this business of static and media files in development environments is driving me nuts. Please rescue me from my stupidity.

I\'m on my

Answer 1

Why have you made the MEDIA_ROOT setting blank? It needs to be the path to your media directory. Since, as you say, your media is in a subdirectory called media, you should put that in MEDIA_ROOT.