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

Here is another alternative:

Set your media configs something like this inside 'settings.py':

#Set media path
MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR,'media')
MEDIA_URL = '/media/'

Lets say I have a modal called person with image filed like below:

class Person(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length = 30)
    photo = models.ImageField(upload_to = 'photos')

Now here upload_to path we are taking about is inside the MEDIA_ROOT folder. In my case a media folder will be created inside which photos folder will be created and our media here will be dumped.

So now in my template I do something like this: