Tim Chase wrote:
>> Thanks. Yes, using relative paths is the right idea - it's a shame that
>> the base url's have to be hard coded in the templates. I understand
>> from a web efficiency standpoint of Django not handling static content
>> but from an application development standpoint this is a real complexity
>> we don't need. I can see this becoming a real mess when constantly
>> updating between development and production. I did see another blog
>> which demonstrated a way to use base url variables for static content
>> with template tags but again this cummulative complexity for common
>> things just becomes a showstopper for us. Somehow the base url path
>> should just be a simple entry in Settings.py and defaulted to the
>> project location.
>>
>
>
> I've gotten around this by adding a couple lines at the bottom of
> my urls.py that, if it's running as the development server (as
> determined by having "runserver" as an entry in sys.argv), it
> adds an entry in the URLs.py to allow Django to handle media:
>
> # if you want to use the production site's media location
> # MEDIA_PATH = settings.MEDIA_ROOT
> # if you want to use a different directory for testing purposes
> # MEDIA_PATH = '../media'
> MEDIA_PATH = '../media'
> if 'runserver' in sys.argv:
> urlpatterns += patterns('',
> (r'^media/(?P<path>.*)$',
> 'django.views.static.serve',
> {'document_root': MEDIA_PATH}
> ),
> )
>
> It may not be an ideal solution, but it serves my purposes,
> allowing me to access my media in development, while still
> allowing Apache to handle my media in production.
>
It seems like a good solution - I still can't get an image displayed -
any idea which settings are not matching ? I've tried locating the
/media folder in both /myproject and /myapp with no success
template:
<img src="/media/sitemap.png"></img>
settings.py
MEDIA_ROOT = './media/'
MEDIA_URL = 'media/'
urls.py
MEDIA_PATH = '../media'
if 'runserver' in sys.argv:
urlpatterns += patterns('',
(r'^media/(?P<path>.*)$','django.views.static.serve',{'document_root':
MEDIA_PATH}),
)
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