My project folders is :
mrdoorbeen
manage.py
mr_doorbeen
setting.py
mrdoorbeen
migrations
templates
index.html
profile
profile.html
I want to include a image in my profile.html file.
i use {% load staticfiles %} in top of the profile.htmland use this code at image source :
<img src="{% static "image/example.jpg" %}" alt="cant'load"/>
and i make a folder in a mr_doorbeen and call it static and in static folder make a image folder and image i put a example.jpg but it doesn't work . my static folder path is wrong or what?
where should i put my static folder in this project
For the given directory structure, You can put your static files on same level as of the directory with file, mr_doorbeen/settings.py
mrdoorbeen
manage.py
mr_doorbeen
setting.py
mrdoorbeen
migrations
templates
index.html
profile
profile.html
static/
You can set the static files to the said location as follows.
# Static files configurations.
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static')
The problem is with your settings file where you need to define STATIC_URL. Just follow the description in Django's documentation.
I had this same problem and solved it by adding to my settings file the import of os from pathlib and the STATICFILES_DIRS line provided in one of the other responses:
from pathlib import Path, os
STATICFILES_DIRS = (
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static'),
)
STATIC_URL was already properly specified to '/static/'. I couldnt solve the problem with just the STATICFILES line until I realized os is a function in pathlib that needed to be imported first.
Also, in addition to importing os and adding the line just mentioned, copying the image files under static directly from within a folder that was under static (named after the app) was key to making it work. I kept the files in the folder under static too so there was redundancy.
After I did that, it worked, and then I could then delete the image files under static directly (not touching those within the folder under static) and it still worked. Somehow, copying them directly under static "taught" Django to access the files within the folder under static, which I dont understand, but it worked.
Related
I'm new to Django and I'm trying to learn it through a simple project I'm developing called 'dubliners' and an app called 'book'. The directory structure is like this:
dubliners/book/ [includes models.py, views.py, etc.]
dubliners/templates/book/
I have a JPG file that needs to be displayed in the header of each Web page. Where should I store the file? Which path should I use for the tag to display it using a template? I've tried various locations and paths, but nothing is working so far.
...
Thanks for the answer posted below. However, I've tried both relative and absolute paths to the image, and I still get a broken image icon displayed in the Web page. For example, if I have an image in my home directory and use this tag in my template:
<img src="/home/tony/london.jpg" />
The image doesn't display. If I save the Web page as a static HTML file, however, the images display, so the path is correct. Maybe the default Web server that comes with Django will display images only if they're on a particular path?
Try this,
settings.py
# typically, os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'media')
MEDIA_ROOT = '<your_path>/media'
MEDIA_URL = '/media/'
urls.py
urlpatterns = patterns('',
(r'^media/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve',
{'document_root': settings.MEDIA_ROOT}),
)
.html
<img src="{{ MEDIA_URL }}<sub-dir-under-media-if-any>/<image-name.ext>" />
Caveat
Beware! using Context() will yield you an empty value for {{MEDIA_URL}}. You must use RequestContext(), instead.
I hope, this will help.
In production, you'll just have the HTML generated from your template pointing to wherever the host has media files stored. So your template will just have for example
<img src="../media/foo.png">
And then you'll just make sure that directory is there with the relevant file(s).
during development is a different issue. The django docs explain it succinctly and clearly enough that it's more effective to link there and type it up here, but basically you'll define a view for site media with a hardcoded path to location on disk.
Right here.
I do understand, that your question was about files stored in MEDIA_ROOT, but sometimes it can be possible to store content in static, when you are not planning to create content of that type anymore.
May be this is a rare case, but anyway - if you have a huge amount of "pictures of the day" for your site - and all these files are on your hard drive?
In that case I see no contra to store such a content in STATIC.
And all becomes really simple:
static
To link to static files that are saved in STATIC_ROOT Django
ships with a static template tag. You can use this regardless if
you're using RequestContext or not.
{% load static %} <img src="{% static "images/hi.jpg" %}" alt="Hi!" />
copied from Official django 1.4 documentation / Built-in template tags and filters
In development
In your app folder create folder name 'static' and save your picture in that folder.
To use picture use:
<html>
<head>
{% load staticfiles %} <!-- Prepare django to load static files -->
</head>
<body>
<img src={% static "image.jpg" %}>
</body>
</html>
In production:
Everything same like in development, just add couple more parameters for Django:
add in settings.py STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "static/")(this will prepare folder where static files from all apps will be stored)
be sure your app is in INSTALLED_APPS = ['myapp',]
in terminall run command python manage.py collectstatic (this will make copy of static files from all apps included in INSTALLED_APPS to global static folder - STATIC_ROOT folder )
Thats all what Django need, after this you need to make some web server side setup to make premissions for use static folder. E.g. in apache2 in configuration file httpd.conf (for windows) or sites-enabled/000-default.conf. (under site virtual host part for linux) add:
Alias \static "path_to_your_project\static"
Require all granted
And that's all
I have spent two solid days working on this so I just thought I'd share my solution as well. As of 26/11/10 the current branch is 1.2.X so that means you'll have to have the following in you settings.py:
MEDIA_ROOT = "<path_to_files>" (i.e. /home/project/django/app/templates/static)
MEDIA_URL = "http://localhost:8000/static/"
*(remember that MEDIA_ROOT is where the files are and MEDIA_URL is a constant that you use in your templates.)*
Then in you url.py place the following:
import settings
# stuff
(r'^static/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve',{'document_root': settings.MEDIA_ROOT}),
Then in your html you can use:
<img src="{{ MEDIA_URL }}foo.jpg">
The way django works (as far as I can figure is:
In the html file it replaces MEDIA_URL with the MEDIA_URL path found in setting.py
It looks in url.py to find any matches for the MEDIA_URL and then if it finds a match (like r'^static/(?P.)$'* relates to http://localhost:8000/static/) it searches for the file in the MEDIA_ROOT and then loads it
/media directory under project root
Settings.py
BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__))
MEDIA_URL = '/media/'
MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'media')
urls.py
urlpatterns += patterns('django.views.static',(r'^media/(?P<path>.*)','serve',{'document_root':settings.MEDIA_ROOT}), )
template
<img src="{{MEDIA_URL}}/image.png" >
If your file is a model field within a model, you can also use ".url" in your template tag to get the image.
For example.
If this is your model:
class Foo(models.Model):
foo = models.TextField()
bar = models.FileField(upload_to="foo-pictures", blank = True)
Pass the model in context in your views.
return render (request, "whatever.html", {'foo':Foo.objects.get(pk = 1)})
In your template you could have:
<img src = "{{foo.bar.url}}">
Your
<img src="/home/tony/london.jpg" />
will work for a HTML file read from disk, as it will assume the URL is file:///home/.... For a file served from a webserver though, the URL will become something like: http://www.yourdomain.com/home/tony/london.jpg, which can be an invalid URL and not what you really mean.
For about how to serve and where to place your static files, check out this document. Basicly, if you're using django's development server, you want to show him the place where your media files live, then make your urls.py serve those files (for example, by using some /static/ url prefix).
Will require you to put something like this in your urls.py:
(r'^site_media/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve',
{'document_root': '/path/to/media'}),
In production environment you want to skip this and make your http server (apache, lighttpd, etc) serve static files.
Another way to do it:
MEDIA_ROOT = '/home/USER/Projects/REPO/src/PROJECT/APP/static/media/'
MEDIA_URL = '/static/media/'
This would require you to move your media folder to a sub directory of a static folder.
Then in your template you can use:
<img class="scale-with-grid" src="{{object.photo.url}}"/>
I tried various method it didn't work.But this worked.Hope it will work for you as well. The file/directory must be at this locations:
projec/your_app/templates
project/your_app/static
settings.py
import os
PROJECT_DIR = os.path.realpath(os.path.dirname(_____file_____))
STATIC_ROOT = '/your_path/static/'
example:
STATIC_ROOT = '/home/project_name/your_app/static/'
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATICFILES_DIRS =(
PROJECT_DIR+'/static',
##//don.t forget comma
)
TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
PROJECT_DIR+'/templates/',
)
proj/app/templates/filename.html
inside body
{% load staticfiles %}
//for image
img src="{% static "fb.png" %}" alt="image here"
//note that fb.png is at /home/project/app/static/fb.png
If fb.png was inside /home/project/app/static/image/fb.png then
img src="{% static "images/fb.png" %}" alt="image here"
I've had the hardest time figuring this out so I am making this post to explain as clearly as i can, what worked for me, to help someone else.
Let's say you have a project called project_name. and an app called app_name. your root directory should look like this:
/app_name
/project_name
manage.py
DEVELOPMENT.
while in development mode, your CSS and JS files should be inside ./app_name/static/app_name/..
however your images should be inside ./app_name/static/media/..
now add these to settings.py :
If this not already there, add
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
This tells Django where to find all the static files.
MEDIA_URL = '/media/'
This points Django to the folder where your images are, after it loads static. In this case it is /media/ because our images are in /static/media.
next, you should put this in the individual template where you need the image (I thought putting a single {% load static %} in the general layout.html template would suffice, it didn't):
{% load static %}
<img src="{% static image_name %}>
depending on how you set up your project, image_name could be the exact name of the image file like "image.jpg", a variable for an image field like user.image etc
lastly, go into the project_name urls.py (same folder as settings.py) and add this line to the end:
from django.conf import settings
from django.conf.urls.static import static
if settings.DEBUG:
urlpatterns += static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)
basically telling Django to use a work around so you can see use the images in development.
That is all. your project will now display images while you are writing and testing your code(development)
PRODUCTION.
When you want to deploy your project, there are some extra steps you need to take.
Because Django does not serve images as static files during production, you have to install a Middleware called Whitenoise.
http://whitenoise.evans.io/en/stable/#installation
pip install whitenoise
Then add the following to settings.py:
look for MIDDLEWARE and add just under django.middleware.security.SecrutiyMiddleware:
'whitenoise.middleware.WhiteNoiseMiddleware',
Next we have to define our paths, this is because in production Django will basically collect all the static files from all our apps and rearrange them in a single folder.
Add the following to settings.py:
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static')
This tells Django where to put static files when it collects them. In this case we are telling Django to put the files in the root folder. so after collectstatic runs our app would look like
/app_name
/project_name
/static
manage.py
Then add:
MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'media')
This tells django where to put files that a user who on our site uploads..
Next,we want to go up and change Debug to False.
Debug = False
Debug mode is used for testing in development, and in production you don't want your app displaying error codes and the names of files and lines where something went wrong. potential security threat. Once you turn debug mode to false, Django changes how it serves the static files. so ordinarily, if you were to run your app now, you won't see the images..
with these done, now you are ready for production. to test that everything is okay, you can run:
python manage.py collectstatic
(type yes if prompted)
Django will collect all the static files and arrange them as necessary. if you run your project now, with debug still turned off you should see your images. you can even now delete the individual static folders in app_name or any other apps you have, if you want because Django will not use them in production. Once debug is off, Django only uses static from the collected static folder.
You can now deploy your project
If you give the address of online image in your django project it will work.
that is working for me. You should take a shot.
Also check that the problem may not be due to path, but file name or extension. While failing to dislay an image added to base.html template, the error was found related to image file extension. If you are storing the image in jpeg format, use .jpg as the extension in the img tag
<img src="{% static 'logo.jpg' %}" alt="Logo">.
Just give a try copying static folder from base path to public_html folder.
cp -r static/ ~/public_html/
Here's my script in base.html, the left of the picture is about my tree.
I checked the href should be correct and I've load static at very top of the html file. However I still cannot connect the css file anyone can help he here? Thanks!
href="{% static 'Simple_Social/css/master.css' %}"
for refer, please see the picture since idk why I can't post a picture yet, thanks!
https://i.stack.imgur.com/Vi2z6.png
This is how static files are configured. In settings.py file inside the INSTALLED_APPS list, there is an app called 'django.contrib.staticfiles', this baked in app manages the static files across the entire project during development as well in production.
This static URL will append to base URL for serving static files in development like http://127.0.0.1:8000/static/css/style.css basically think this as a reference to static files.
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATICFILES_DIRS tells Django the location of static files in our project. The common practice is to have all the static files in a top-level static directory.
STATICFILES_DIRS = [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static'), ]
STATIC_ROOT is the single root directory from where the Django application will serve the static files in production. The command manage.py collectstatic will automatically compile all the static files throughout the project and dump it into a single root directory, which is declared in STATIC_ROOT.
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'staticfiles')
Finally, you can user load static to load the static files in template
{% load static %}
In the documentation https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/static-files/
I read that static files should be put with their respective apps and called upon with
{% load staticfiles %}
<img src="{% static "articles/css/base.css" %}" alt="My image"/>
However later on in the docs it mentions that some static files don't pertain to a particular app. This is where STATICFILES_DIRS comes into play. If I read correctly STATICFILES_DIRS is a tuple for Django to use to look for other static files. I was wondering how would I call the static files that was called from the STATICFILES_DIRS?
ex: something like
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{% static "/css/default.css" %}">
Also I am not sure what to put for my STATIC_ROOT. Do I leave it empty? ('')
My proj tree
mysite
\articles
\static
\articles
\css
base.css
\static
\images
\css
default.css
\js
\templates
base.html
\settings.py
This is currently in my settings.py regarding static files
# looks for static files in each app
STATICFILES_FINDERS = (
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
)
STATICFILES_STORAGE = (
'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage'
)
# the absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment (OUTPUT)
STATIC_ROOT = ''
# This setting defines the additional locations the static files app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled.
STATICFILES_DIRS = (
# used for static assets that aren't tied to a particular app
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static'),
)
# URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
Almost everything about django static is related to the django.contrib.staticfiles app. Although you need to custom edit many settings to make staticfiles work, what is does is simple. It provides a collectstatic command which collects static files from different app and put them into a single directory.
The answer to your first question is simple: Put those common static files under the /static directory of your django project directory. In your case, it's mysite/static.
Reason: First, it's the official way. You can find the following code in official doc: Managing static files (CSS, images). Second, it's reasonable. Since we put static files only used in a single app under project/appnane/static/... The project's static dir should follow the same name pattern.
STATICFILES_DIRS = (
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "static"), # That's it!!
'/var/www/static/',
)
As I said in the comment, your should not set STATIC_ROOT to project_absolutr_path/static. Because that directory is user to put css app static files. You don't want the collectstatics command to pollute that directory especially when you are using a version control system like git/svn.
STATIC_ROOT really depends on the way you host these static files(Apache, Nginx, S3, CDN, Paas like heroku)
In django, all urls are parsed from urls.py file. So, there is no directory structure as such.
So, what if you have to include a css file in your template ?
Is there a way without adding it to url.py file ?
If no, then will you make new entry in urls.py for every resource ?
See the Django HOWTO on static files.
Basically, in your configuration file, you specify a special directory to store static files in. The example in the docs is:
STATIC_ROOT = "/home/jacob/projects/mysite.com/sitestatic"
You put CSS files, images, etc. in there, and the server will know to serve URLs that match your static URL pattern from that directory.
You no longer need to specify STATIC_ROOT (for djangor > 1.10). Simply, make sure
django.contrib.staticfiles
is included in INSTALLED_APPS
and
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
in your settings.py
Create a directory called "static" in your app directory, and inside the created static directory, another subdirectory named your app and include the static files there (you could also create js, img, css subdirectories inside the last directory based on your preference if you need)
Then, include the correct path in the template file. For ex:
src = "/static/my_app/example.js"
or
src = "/static/my_app/js/example.js"
(assuming your javascript files are in a directory called js)
Alternatively (much better), define the path using the static template tag:
{% load static %}
<script src="{% static "my_app/js/example.js" %}"></script>
All you need to know:
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/howto/static-files/
In my root urls.py file, I use this pattern to serve static files when developing locally. I also add a setting called SERVE_STATIC_MEDIA so I can separate it from DEBUG.
if settings.SERVE_STATIC_MEDIA:
urlpatterns += patterns('',
(r'^static/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve', \
{'document_root' : settings.MEDIA_ROOT}),
)
Then in a template, you can access css, js, images, as such:
<link type="text/css" href="{{ MEDIA_URL }}css/foo.css" media="screen,projection" />
I'm new to Django and I'm trying to learn it through a simple project I'm developing called 'dubliners' and an app called 'book'. The directory structure is like this:
dubliners/book/ [includes models.py, views.py, etc.]
dubliners/templates/book/
I have a JPG file that needs to be displayed in the header of each Web page. Where should I store the file? Which path should I use for the tag to display it using a template? I've tried various locations and paths, but nothing is working so far.
...
Thanks for the answer posted below. However, I've tried both relative and absolute paths to the image, and I still get a broken image icon displayed in the Web page. For example, if I have an image in my home directory and use this tag in my template:
<img src="/home/tony/london.jpg" />
The image doesn't display. If I save the Web page as a static HTML file, however, the images display, so the path is correct. Maybe the default Web server that comes with Django will display images only if they're on a particular path?
Try this,
settings.py
# typically, os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'media')
MEDIA_ROOT = '<your_path>/media'
MEDIA_URL = '/media/'
urls.py
urlpatterns = patterns('',
(r'^media/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve',
{'document_root': settings.MEDIA_ROOT}),
)
.html
<img src="{{ MEDIA_URL }}<sub-dir-under-media-if-any>/<image-name.ext>" />
Caveat
Beware! using Context() will yield you an empty value for {{MEDIA_URL}}. You must use RequestContext(), instead.
I hope, this will help.
In production, you'll just have the HTML generated from your template pointing to wherever the host has media files stored. So your template will just have for example
<img src="../media/foo.png">
And then you'll just make sure that directory is there with the relevant file(s).
during development is a different issue. The django docs explain it succinctly and clearly enough that it's more effective to link there and type it up here, but basically you'll define a view for site media with a hardcoded path to location on disk.
Right here.
I do understand, that your question was about files stored in MEDIA_ROOT, but sometimes it can be possible to store content in static, when you are not planning to create content of that type anymore.
May be this is a rare case, but anyway - if you have a huge amount of "pictures of the day" for your site - and all these files are on your hard drive?
In that case I see no contra to store such a content in STATIC.
And all becomes really simple:
static
To link to static files that are saved in STATIC_ROOT Django
ships with a static template tag. You can use this regardless if
you're using RequestContext or not.
{% load static %} <img src="{% static "images/hi.jpg" %}" alt="Hi!" />
copied from Official django 1.4 documentation / Built-in template tags and filters
In development
In your app folder create folder name 'static' and save your picture in that folder.
To use picture use:
<html>
<head>
{% load staticfiles %} <!-- Prepare django to load static files -->
</head>
<body>
<img src={% static "image.jpg" %}>
</body>
</html>
In production:
Everything same like in development, just add couple more parameters for Django:
add in settings.py STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "static/")(this will prepare folder where static files from all apps will be stored)
be sure your app is in INSTALLED_APPS = ['myapp',]
in terminall run command python manage.py collectstatic (this will make copy of static files from all apps included in INSTALLED_APPS to global static folder - STATIC_ROOT folder )
Thats all what Django need, after this you need to make some web server side setup to make premissions for use static folder. E.g. in apache2 in configuration file httpd.conf (for windows) or sites-enabled/000-default.conf. (under site virtual host part for linux) add:
Alias \static "path_to_your_project\static"
Require all granted
And that's all
I have spent two solid days working on this so I just thought I'd share my solution as well. As of 26/11/10 the current branch is 1.2.X so that means you'll have to have the following in you settings.py:
MEDIA_ROOT = "<path_to_files>" (i.e. /home/project/django/app/templates/static)
MEDIA_URL = "http://localhost:8000/static/"
*(remember that MEDIA_ROOT is where the files are and MEDIA_URL is a constant that you use in your templates.)*
Then in you url.py place the following:
import settings
# stuff
(r'^static/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve',{'document_root': settings.MEDIA_ROOT}),
Then in your html you can use:
<img src="{{ MEDIA_URL }}foo.jpg">
The way django works (as far as I can figure is:
In the html file it replaces MEDIA_URL with the MEDIA_URL path found in setting.py
It looks in url.py to find any matches for the MEDIA_URL and then if it finds a match (like r'^static/(?P.)$'* relates to http://localhost:8000/static/) it searches for the file in the MEDIA_ROOT and then loads it
/media directory under project root
Settings.py
BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__))
MEDIA_URL = '/media/'
MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'media')
urls.py
urlpatterns += patterns('django.views.static',(r'^media/(?P<path>.*)','serve',{'document_root':settings.MEDIA_ROOT}), )
template
<img src="{{MEDIA_URL}}/image.png" >
If your file is a model field within a model, you can also use ".url" in your template tag to get the image.
For example.
If this is your model:
class Foo(models.Model):
foo = models.TextField()
bar = models.FileField(upload_to="foo-pictures", blank = True)
Pass the model in context in your views.
return render (request, "whatever.html", {'foo':Foo.objects.get(pk = 1)})
In your template you could have:
<img src = "{{foo.bar.url}}">
Your
<img src="/home/tony/london.jpg" />
will work for a HTML file read from disk, as it will assume the URL is file:///home/.... For a file served from a webserver though, the URL will become something like: http://www.yourdomain.com/home/tony/london.jpg, which can be an invalid URL and not what you really mean.
For about how to serve and where to place your static files, check out this document. Basicly, if you're using django's development server, you want to show him the place where your media files live, then make your urls.py serve those files (for example, by using some /static/ url prefix).
Will require you to put something like this in your urls.py:
(r'^site_media/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve',
{'document_root': '/path/to/media'}),
In production environment you want to skip this and make your http server (apache, lighttpd, etc) serve static files.
Another way to do it:
MEDIA_ROOT = '/home/USER/Projects/REPO/src/PROJECT/APP/static/media/'
MEDIA_URL = '/static/media/'
This would require you to move your media folder to a sub directory of a static folder.
Then in your template you can use:
<img class="scale-with-grid" src="{{object.photo.url}}"/>
I tried various method it didn't work.But this worked.Hope it will work for you as well. The file/directory must be at this locations:
projec/your_app/templates
project/your_app/static
settings.py
import os
PROJECT_DIR = os.path.realpath(os.path.dirname(_____file_____))
STATIC_ROOT = '/your_path/static/'
example:
STATIC_ROOT = '/home/project_name/your_app/static/'
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATICFILES_DIRS =(
PROJECT_DIR+'/static',
##//don.t forget comma
)
TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
PROJECT_DIR+'/templates/',
)
proj/app/templates/filename.html
inside body
{% load staticfiles %}
//for image
img src="{% static "fb.png" %}" alt="image here"
//note that fb.png is at /home/project/app/static/fb.png
If fb.png was inside /home/project/app/static/image/fb.png then
img src="{% static "images/fb.png" %}" alt="image here"
I've had the hardest time figuring this out so I am making this post to explain as clearly as i can, what worked for me, to help someone else.
Let's say you have a project called project_name. and an app called app_name. your root directory should look like this:
/app_name
/project_name
manage.py
DEVELOPMENT.
while in development mode, your CSS and JS files should be inside ./app_name/static/app_name/..
however your images should be inside ./app_name/static/media/..
now add these to settings.py :
If this not already there, add
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
This tells Django where to find all the static files.
MEDIA_URL = '/media/'
This points Django to the folder where your images are, after it loads static. In this case it is /media/ because our images are in /static/media.
next, you should put this in the individual template where you need the image (I thought putting a single {% load static %} in the general layout.html template would suffice, it didn't):
{% load static %}
<img src="{% static image_name %}>
depending on how you set up your project, image_name could be the exact name of the image file like "image.jpg", a variable for an image field like user.image etc
lastly, go into the project_name urls.py (same folder as settings.py) and add this line to the end:
from django.conf import settings
from django.conf.urls.static import static
if settings.DEBUG:
urlpatterns += static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)
basically telling Django to use a work around so you can see use the images in development.
That is all. your project will now display images while you are writing and testing your code(development)
PRODUCTION.
When you want to deploy your project, there are some extra steps you need to take.
Because Django does not serve images as static files during production, you have to install a Middleware called Whitenoise.
http://whitenoise.evans.io/en/stable/#installation
pip install whitenoise
Then add the following to settings.py:
look for MIDDLEWARE and add just under django.middleware.security.SecrutiyMiddleware:
'whitenoise.middleware.WhiteNoiseMiddleware',
Next we have to define our paths, this is because in production Django will basically collect all the static files from all our apps and rearrange them in a single folder.
Add the following to settings.py:
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static')
This tells Django where to put static files when it collects them. In this case we are telling Django to put the files in the root folder. so after collectstatic runs our app would look like
/app_name
/project_name
/static
manage.py
Then add:
MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'media')
This tells django where to put files that a user who on our site uploads..
Next,we want to go up and change Debug to False.
Debug = False
Debug mode is used for testing in development, and in production you don't want your app displaying error codes and the names of files and lines where something went wrong. potential security threat. Once you turn debug mode to false, Django changes how it serves the static files. so ordinarily, if you were to run your app now, you won't see the images..
with these done, now you are ready for production. to test that everything is okay, you can run:
python manage.py collectstatic
(type yes if prompted)
Django will collect all the static files and arrange them as necessary. if you run your project now, with debug still turned off you should see your images. you can even now delete the individual static folders in app_name or any other apps you have, if you want because Django will not use them in production. Once debug is off, Django only uses static from the collected static folder.
You can now deploy your project
If you give the address of online image in your django project it will work.
that is working for me. You should take a shot.
Also check that the problem may not be due to path, but file name or extension. While failing to dislay an image added to base.html template, the error was found related to image file extension. If you are storing the image in jpeg format, use .jpg as the extension in the img tag
<img src="{% static 'logo.jpg' %}" alt="Logo">.
Just give a try copying static folder from base path to public_html folder.
cp -r static/ ~/public_html/