you need to change these: #from settings.py MEDIA_ROOT = 'D:/workspace/isiscore/media/' MEDIA_URL = '/site_media/' ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX = '/media/'
#from urls.py from django.conf import settings (r'^media/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve', { 'document_root': settings.MEDIA_URL, 'show_indexes': True, }), remember, MEDIA_URL, is a URL, not a filesystem path. keith On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > I'm hoping I've just missed a simple switch, but I'm trying to get > some simple CSS and images set up using the development server. > > First, my setup: > > from urls.py > (r'^media/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve', > { 'document_root': 'D:/workspace/isiscore/media', 'show_indexes': > True, }), > > from settings.py > > MEDIA_ROOT = 'D:/workspace/isiscore/media/' > MEDIA_URL = 'D:/workspace/isiscore/media/' > ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX = '/media/' > > I have tried putting an image into my template with: src="css/images/ > img02.jpg" but nothing happens. The full path to the image file is D: > \workspace\isiscore\media\css\images\img02.jpg. > > The Problem: > > When I try to load css (in my template as <link rel="stylesheet" > type="text/css" href="{{ MEDIA_URL }}css/default.css" />), nothing > happens. > > When I set the browser to http://127.0.0.1:8000/media/css/images/img02.jpg > , > I get a blank white page with the text "Page not found: C:\Python25\Lib > \site-packages\django/contrib/admin/media\css/images/img02.jpg" at the > top. It doesn't seem like the development server is even looking in > the correct place. I'm also concerned by the seemingly random > assortment of backwards and forward slashes. > > I'll mention this because it may be important, but I'm also getting a > "TemplateSyntaxError: Caught an exception while rendering: nothing to > repeat" whenever I save a file and then reload a page. Everything > works correctly, however, when I reload again. > > Any and all help is kindly appreciated. > > Kind regards, > Robert > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---