Images from ImageField in Django don't load in template

Question

I\'m building a gallery using Django(1.5.1) on my local machine. In my Album model I have a ImageField. There is a view to show all images of an album. It works

Answer 1

I have a clue on what's the problem. MEDIA_URL should be like this:

MEDIA_ROOT='' (i.e: '/home/ike/project/media/')
MEDIA_URL='/media/'

Note the slash character at the beginning. That is because media is a folder in your root server folder and not relative to whatever other url you call it.

And add these lines to the end of your urls.py file:

# You might need to import static function like this:
#from django.contrib.staticfiles.urls import static

urlpatterns += staticfiles_urlpatterns()
urlpatterns += static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)

You can check the following documentation: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/static-files

Hope this helps