On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 11:53 -0800, AKK wrote: > Sorry I must mean the media url. Are the media_root and the media_url > automatically linked?
No. The MEDIA_ROOT (capitalisation is important) setting is a storage path. It could be anywhere. It's then up to you to configure your webserver so that requests to the MEDIA_URL URL pull files from the right location (which will usually be MEDIA_ROOT). The only dependency between MEDIA_ROOT and MEDIA_URL is that Django's FileField (and its ImageField subclass) use MEDIA_ROOT to store the data and return something based on MEDIA_URL when you request the URL for that model field. However, configuring the two to be linked is up to you (since there isn't any natural correspondence). > In my settings.py i have: > > C:/Program Files/Apache2.2/myproject/ > media/ as the root & > http://localhost:8080/akonline/media/ > as the url > > and i have an image (imgs/img.jpg) in my C:/Program Files/Apache2.2/ > myproject/media/ but i get a 404 error when my template looks at this > address: > > http://localhost:8080/akonline/media/imgs/img.jpg > > have i missed something? As noted, you'll need to configure Apache to retrieve files from the right location. Looking the Apache error logs will tell you where it's looking right now when you query that URL. Looking in the Django documentation (in particular, [1]) will tell you how to link things up. [1] http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/deployment/modpython/#id1 By the way, don't be too scared by the strong recommendation to use an entirely separate webserver for media files. That certainly not a bad idea for really big sites, but using the same webserver works fine in a lot of cases (Apache is very, very good at serving static files). 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
