Django Get absolute url for static files

Question

In Django, when I use:

{{ request.build_absolute_uri }}{% static \"img/myimage.jpg\" %}

It produces: \'http://myurl.com//static/img/myimage

Answer 1

The request object is available within your templates and you can easily access attributes such as request.scheme or request.META.HTTP_HOST to construct your base URL that you can prepend ahead of your static URL to get the full URL.

Final example would look something like this: