Django: MEDIA_URL not set in template

Question

I\'ve read a lot of question and article but can\'t find what I\'m missing.

Here is my conf :

settings.py

MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.j         


        

Answer 1

models.ImageField has a property called url which gives you the browsable path of your image.

You should be using artist.artist_image.url instead of prepending MEDIA_URL to your image name manually:

<img class="avatar secondary-content" src="{{artist.artist_image.url}}" />

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Make sure artist_image is not None, otherwise calling .url throws an exception.

Answer 2

You need to define the django.template.context_processors.media template context processor in your settings for MEDIA_URL variable to be present in the template context.

If this processor is enabled, every RequestContext will contain a variable MEDIA_URL, providing the value of the MEDIA_URL setting.

Including this in your settings will include MEDIA_URL in the template context. It is not included by default in Django 1.8 settings. We need to set it explicitly.

context_processors = [
    ...
    'django.template.context_processors.media', # set this explicitly
]