Re: Uploading and viewing images problem

Thank you. That solves my problem. I had mistakenly assumed that as
the introduction of django.contrib.staticfiles made
django.views.static.serve unnecessary for static files, it also had
the same consequence for media files. Thanks again.
Rodney

On Sep 20, 6:34 pm, Praveen Krishna R <rpraveenkris...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> *Have you done something like this in your project urls.py*
> *
> *
> *
> urlpatterns += patterns('',
> *
>     (r'^site_media/(?P<path>.*)$',
> 'django.views.static.serve',{'document_root': settings.MEDIA_ROOT}),
> )
> So that you can enable serving the media from the development server ?!
> *my MEDIA_URL = '/site_media/'*
>
> And html from the templates
> *<li> <img src="{{ MEDIA_URL }}{{ photo.photo }}" ></li>*
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 7:43 AM, Rodney Topor <r.to...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've written a small project to upload and view images using a recent
> > development version of Django.  In settings.py, I've defined
> > MEDIA_ROOT = join(PATH, 'media') # the full path to the media
> > subdirectory of my project directory
> > MEDIA_URL = '/media/'
> > I've created subdirectories /media/images in my project directory.
> > I've defined my model with an ImageField(upload_to='images'), defined
> > a form with enctype="multipart/form-data/", etc.
> > When I create a new object with a selected image, the image is
> > correctly uploaded to /media/images/.  The HTML page intended to
> > display the image correctly (?) uses the following HTML element:
> > <img alt="images/foo.jpg" src="/media/images/foo.jpg" height="40"
> > width="100" />
> > The development server displays a message of the form:
> > [20/Sep/2011 14:35:04] "GET /media/images/foo.jpg HTTP/1.1" 404 2218
> > I.e., the image is not found and the rendered page contains only a
> > query where the image should be displayed.
> > So the images are being uploaded correctly, the generated HTML
> > contains <img> elements that refer to the correct locations of the
> > images, but they are not being displayed.  The image and its
> > containing directories are all world-readable.
> > So can someone please explain what else I have to do to make this
> > work?  Many thanks.
> > Rodney
>
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