Thanks for the great help.
Daniel, good eye - I copied & pasted without looking too carefully,
and was trying to access the folder one level up. Once I changed
that, I can now access the file as David suggested, directly via the
url: http://localhost:8000/site_media/autodiag_title.jpg
Brian, you understood me perfectly -- when I was asking about a tag, I
was simply asking if django used a shortcut the way rails does, and
{{MEDIA_URL}} is what I was looking for. Duh. :P
However, {{MEDIA_URL}} currently returns nothing. I can't seem to
access any of my settings.py vars from my views; I get no errors but
no var either, it's just blank. I've tried both relative and absolute
paths; my current code is this:
settings.py
MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(PROJECT_PATH, 'site_media') # which gives
the right path in the interpreter
MEDIA_URL = 'http://localhost:8000/site_media/' # which I
verified as above
urls.py
if settings.DEBUG:
urlpatterns += patterns('',
(r'^site_media/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve',
{'document_root': os.path.join(settings.PROJECT_PATH, 'site_media')}),
)
My template has
<img src="{{MEDIA_URL}}autodiag_title.jpg"/>
but viewing source shows only
<img src="autodiag_title.jpg"/>
I've recopied the regex from the docs in case I made a typo, but I
can't think of why I'm still getting no variable output. ?
Thanks a bunch!
On Jan 12, 4:58 pm, Daniel Roseman <roseman.dan...@googlemail.com>
wrote:
> On Jan 12, 8:59 pm, jazztpt <annacalla...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Nope, that's not the problem. I had read that page, and another that
> > suggested a slightly different syntax for the urlpatterns
> > (fromhttp://rob.cogit8.org/blog). Sorry that I forgot to mention that I
> > had already put Rob's version in my code -- I wasn't sure if it was
> > necessary simply to show any images anywhere on your site (the example
> > is of a set of images with a directory and links to each image).
>
> > This is what is currently in my urls.py file, after my other
> > urlpatterns (and yes, DEBUG is set to True):
> > if settings.DEBUG:
> > urlpatterns += patterns('',
> > (r'^media/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve',
> > {'document_root': os.path.join(settings.PROJECT_PATH, '..',
> > 'media')}),
> > )
>
> > That page in the docs doesn't say anything about how to call this from
> > the view. Are these files automatically accessed by an <img> tag? I
> > didn't see any special image tag (like the image_tag in rails) in the
> > template tags or in my search of the docs.
> > Thanks
>
> OK, it sounds like you're getting a bit confused.
>
> Django doesn't do anything 'automatic' with images. As you've found
> from those links, it is possible - under the development server only -
> to get Django to serve up images in much the same way as Apache would
> do so. In order to make that work, you've created a pattern in your
> urls.py to serve the images from /media/.
>
> But there's still nothing automatic here. Django is simply serving
> images on a url, and there's no such thing as a 'special image tag' to
> make them appear. Your page is simply HTML, so you need to use a
> normal HTML image tag - with the url you configured, ie /media/<path>
> - to see the images.
>
> So, I would echo David Zhou's advice: what happens when you
> enterhttp://127.0.0.1:8000/media/autodiag_title.jpg(presuming you're
> running the dev server under the default address) directly into the
> browser's URL box? Do you see the image, an error, or nothing at all?
>
> The second thing to check is whether your settings.py also has
> ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX set to /media/, which it is by default. As
> documented
> here:http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/settings/#admin-media-prefix
> this shouldn't be the same as the URL you use to serve images. If they
> are the same, what's probably happening is that Django is setting /
> media/ to serve the admin assets, rather than your project's ones.
> This is why the documentation recommends using site_media as the URL
> you serve your own images from.
>
> Thirdly, check the location of your images. The urlconf you posted has
> the images being served from a 'media' directory one level *above*
> your PROJECT_PATH setting (whatever that is - presumably your own
> custom setting). Is this actually where the images live?
>
> Does any of this help?
> --
> DR.
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