I just resolved the issue. the line
MEDIA_ROOT =
os.path.join(os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__)),'multimedia')
was the problem and pointing to the wrong path. so the photos were
stored in "/home/.../cs142/multimedia/photos/xyz.jpg" but due to the
MEDIA_ROOT problem it pointed to "/home/..../assignment3/cs142/
multimedia/photos/xyz.jpg"
here assignment3 is a directory at the same level as multimedia.
In any case sorry if I wasted anybody's time.
On Nov 4, 12:35 am, Abhas <abhasfor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am having trouble displaying images stored on my laptop using Django
> templates.To highlight the problem I am using a view called test which
> renders a template called test.html. code for them is as follows:
>
> def test(request):
> return
> render_to_response('test.html',context_instance=RequestContext(request,proc
> essors=[custom_proc]))
>
> def custom_proc(request):
> return {'MEDIA_URL':settings.MEDIA_URL}
>
> "test.html"
>
> <html>
> <head> this is a test page </head>
>
> <body>
> <img src="{{MEDIA_URL}}photos/hilton1.jpg" alt="Paris Hilton" />
> </body>
> </html>
>
> on rendering this page, the image does not get displayed instead
> displaying the text associated with "alt" in the img tag.On viewing
> page source,it shows src="/multimedia/photos/hilton1.jpg" which is the
> correct location of the image file.
>
> My settings are as follows:
> MEDIA_ROOT =
> os.path.join(os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__)),'multimedia')
> MEDIA_URL = '/multimedia/'
> ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX = '/media/'
>
> finally here are the settings in "urls.py"
> if settings.DEBUG:
> from django.views.static import serve
> if settings.MEDIA_URL.startswith('/'):
> _media_url=settings.MEDIA_URL[1:]
> urlpatterns+=patterns('',(r'^%s(?P<path>.*)$' % _media_url,serve,
> {'document_root':settings.MEDIA_ROOT,}))
> del(_media_url,serve)
>
> I have tried searching the net without any resolution to this
> problem.Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Abhas
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