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

I followed timmy procedure but I got an error that No module name django.views. When I use import django.views in my virtualenv everything works fine i.e It's not an issue with the import of library.

However, I was able to solve this problem by following this procedure in my main urls file

from django.conf.urls.static import  static
urlpatterns += static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/static-files/