On Sat, 2009-01-24 at 10:09 -0800, John Baker wrote: > OK thanks and yes it does but that's half the story. I haven't made > myself very clear. The ImageField still tries to append /media/ to the > image upload_to path rather than /uploads/ which would retrieve them > from the dynamic media root rather than the application media. > > My point was how do I get these 2 things to work together serving > multiple media directories and FileFields? > > The only way I can see is to have uploads under media which I don't > really want. I can't see a way in the docs to tell file field which > media root it belongs to.
I still don't think you've explained the problem you're having here. ImageField and FileField using the upload_to path (and the MEDIA_ROOT setting) to determine where to store things. However, you can serve static media from anywhere you like. The MEDIA_URL setting is used for uploaded media (stuff that is stored under MEDIA_ROOT), since there's code inside django that uses MEDIA_ROOT for file reading/write and MEDIA_URL for the URL of those resources. But that doesn't mean you can't also have static stuff under any other URL you like. You just need to use a different setting to refer to it. The only reason Django has the MEDIA_URL setting is because it's a necessary half of allowing file uploads. It's not required to put all static media under that URL prefix. So what is the difficulty here? What is the problem with referring to your unchanging (non-uploaded) static content in templates, whether via a string in the source somewhere, or using a different settings variable of your own naming? Is it conceptual: you're trying to do everything using MEDIA_URL? Regards, Malcolm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
