I can upload an image through the admin page, but the image can not be found when I navigate to the url that is generated by django. (404 error)
The files are being uploaded to the folder:
project_root/media/eventbanner/1/
I have tried multiple solutions but none seem to work for my situation.
Django 1.10 is being run local on Ubuntu 16.04.
The url I get is:
http://localhost:8000/media/eventbanner/1/banner_image.jpg
Media root folder is located at:
/home/username/xxx/xxx/project_name/media
Code in HTML file:
<div class="banner-image">
<img src="{{ event.eventbanner.banner_image.url }}"/>
</div>
url.py code:
from django.conf.urls import url, include
from django.contrib import admin
from . import views
from django.conf import settings
from django.conf.urls.static import static
app_name = 'events'
urlpatterns = [
url(r'^$', views.index, name='index'),
url(r'^details/(?P<event_id>[0-9]+)/$', views.details, name='details'),
url(r'^details/(?P<event_id>[0-9]+)/addcomment/$', views.add_comment, name='add_comment'),
] + static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)
settings.py
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATICFILES_DIRS =[os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static'),]
MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'media/')
MEDIA_URL = '/media/'
models.py
def validate_only_one_instance(obj):
model = obj.__class__
if (model.objects.count() > 0 and obj.id != model.objects.get().id):
raise ValidationError("Can only create 1 %s instance" % model.__name__)
class EventBanner(models.Model):
event = models.OneToOneField(Event, unique=True)
banner_image = models.ImageField(upload_to=get_image_path, blank=True, null=True)
def clean(self):
validate_only_one_instance(self)
The real problem here is that there is no relationship between this url http://localhost:8000/media/eventbanner/1/banner_image.jpg and this location on disk /home/username/xxx/xxx/project_name/media.
In a production application you'd have a web server where you'd store your Media content, the serving URL would be MEDIA_ROOT and you'd append ImageField.url to this value to get a valid image path.
What you need here is to set up a web server for your media images. At first that sounds like a lot of work, but Django provides a shortcut...
Serving Files in Development
You have some work you need to do to have the media files served locally. It requires some changes to your urls.py ...
from django.conf import settings
from django.views.static import serve
# ... the rest of your URLconf goes here ...
if settings.DEBUG:
urlpatterns += [
url(r'^media/(?P<path>.*)$', serve, {
'document_root': settings.MEDIA_ROOT,
}),
]
This uses the views.serve bit and should only be used in DEBUG mode. It overrides the path to media files(django's term for user uploaded content like ImageField). This will redirect those requests through the serve view. Best I can tell this is a mini web server that will map those request routes to locations on disk and allow those locations to be reachable via HTTP urls.
As of at least Django 1.8, there is a helper function static() that will set this up for you and ensure that it only functions in debug mode.
Your urls.py should look something like this:
urlpatterns = [
# ... the rest of your URLconf goes here ...
] + static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)
...to simply quote the documentation.
Make sure that your MEDIA_URL is set to a relative path like /media/ and that your MEDIA_ROOT is an absolute filesystem path like /home/foo/project/media.
Related
So, I'm trying to follow Django documentation about the static files and media files
I have a clean Django installation and I want to add the media folder. What I've done? I've changed the urls.py inside the project (not the app) and the settings.py as below
settings.py
STATIC_URL = 'static/'
MEDIA_URL = 'media/'
MEDIA_ROOT = BASE_DIR / "media"
STATICFILES_DIRS = [
BASE_DIR / "static",
]
urls.py
urlpatterns = [
path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
] + static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)
But I got the
Page not found (404) Request Method: GET Request
URL: http://127.0.0.1:8000/ Using the URLconf defined in
web_project.urls, Django tried these URL patterns, in this order:
admin/ ^media/(?P.*)$ The empty path didn’t match any of these.
I've also tried adding the 'django.template.context_processors.media' into TEMPLATES and using os as below
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
MEDIA_URL = '/media/'
MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'media')
STATICFILES_DIRS = (os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static'),)
but nothing changes
What it could be?
Getting this error is the expected behavior because when you add a path to urlpatterns in urls.py in your example + static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT) you'll no more get access to http://127.0.0.1:8000/ (it just renders a “Congratulations!” page, with a rocket taking off. It worked! ) unless you specify a view to this empty path (which you didn't)
In your case, there is no URL leading to http://127.0.0.1:8000/ . the only paths you get access to are :
1- http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/ for the admin page
2 - http://127.0.0.1:8000/media/(?P<path>.*)$ to access you media files
for example, if you have an image img.png in media folder you can access http://127.0.0.1:8000/media/img.png and view your image
The static function is only intended to serve static files during development and is not suitable for serving user-uploaded media files.
Try to make a condition check that whether DEBUG=True or not so:
from django.conf import settings
from django.conf.urls.static import static
urlpatterns = [
path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
]
if settings.DEBUG:
urlpatterns += static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)
I am currently trying to configure my django project so that I can access static file images via url. However, it is currentely saying that the image does no exist.
Here are my settings for static files:
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
MEDIA_URL = '/images/'
STATICFILES_DIRS = [
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static')
]
MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, '/static/images')
Here are my base project urls:
urlpatterns = [
path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
path('api/', include('api.urls'))
]
urlpatterns += static(settings.STATIC_URL, document_root=settings.STATIC_ROOT)
urlpatterns += static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root = settings.MEDIA_ROOT)
And my folder structure is, in the root of my project: static->images->[all images in here]
Upon trying to access an image via url like this: http://127.0.0.1:8000/images/*proper image name*
It tells me that the image doesn't exist. Here is the call back:
Page not found (404)
Request Method: GET
Request URL: http://127.0.0.1:8000/static/IMG_4622_2.JPG
Raised by: django.views.static.serve
'IMG_4622_2.JPG' could not be found
You're seeing this error because you have DEBUG = True in your Django settings file. Change that to False, and Django will display a standard 404 page.
Does anyone know why this may be happening?
STATIC_URL specifies the url path to serve static files. In your case the setting points to /static/.
So that's where you have to access them - http://127.0.0.1:8000/static/images/*proper image name*
My code generates Pandas dataframes. They are big. I save them as files. For this, I have created this Model:
models.py:
class TargetFiles(models.Model):
owner = models.CharField(max_length=25)
csv_file = models.FileField(blank=True, upload_to='target')
file_name = models.CharField(max_length=255)
settings.py:
...
BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
MEDIA_URL = '/media/'
MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'media')
mycode.py:
file_content = df.to_csv(index=False, encoding='utf-8')
csvname = 'target1.csv'
csf = ContentFile(file_content, csvname)
TargetFiles.objects.create(owner=self.user, csv_file=csf, file_name=csvname)
urls.py (project):
from django.urls import include, path
from django.contrib import admin
urlpatterns = [
path('dataapp/', include('dataapp.urls')),
]
urls.py (dataapp):
from django.urls import path
from . import views
urlpatterns = [
path('', views.index, name='dataapp'),
path('welcome/', views.welcome_dataapp, name='welcome_dataapp'),
path('download/<str:file_name>', views.download, name='download'),
]
I don't know if this is the best approach for the problem. This documentation made me skeptical. The thing is that my code is generating the file properly, and saving it in the MEDIA_ROOT directory. But when I go to admin view and click on TargetFiles object, the link to the file returns this error:
The current path, media/target/target1.csv, didn't match any of these.
Since I am not an Django expert, I think I am setting something wrong. Maybe in settings.py or in urls.py (in this file I didn't write any reference to media, maybe this is where the error lives).
I have already read these posts:
Django - how to create a file and save it to a model's FileField?
,
Django: generate a CSV file and store it into FileField and this assign resulting csv file to django model. But I was not able to make the admin link point to the MEDIA_ROOT file.
Does anyone have ideas?
Thanks in advance.
Django does not serve the files stored in the MEDIA_ROOT. You can enable this during development by adding the following to your root url config:
from django.conf import settings
from django.conf.urls.static import static
urlpatterns = [
# ... the rest of your URLconf goes here ...
] + static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/howto/static-files/#serving-files-uploaded-by-a-user-during-development
It's recommended to let file serving be handled by some other server (apache or nginx) whe deploying to a production server.
I am ashamed to ask a question of that sort but I still can not solve my problem. I normally uploaded image in my media directory and can see image link in my admin but if I click on link I get:
Page not found (404)
Request Method: GET
Request URL: http://127.0.0.1:8000/photo/img/9.jpg
Using the URLconf defined in TeamStudy.urls, Django tried these URL patterns, in this order:
^admin/
The current URL, photo/img/9.jpg, didn't match any of these.
my project structure:
src
static/
photo/
img/
settings:
PROJECT_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__))
BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(PROJECT_DIR)
MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static', 'photo')
MEDIA_URL = '/photo/'
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(BASE_DIR), "static")
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
urls.py
urlpatterns = [
url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
]
I suspect it perhaps quite simple and I miss something. Please point me.
You need to add the media MEDIA_ROOT and MEDIA_URL in your urlpatterns
urlpatterns = [
url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
] + static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)
check following links for more details
Accessing "Media" files in Django
Django classifies user files in two types
Static files
Media files
this link helps you understand the difference between them
Your issues deals with Media files.
In future development, you may need to serve static files, to serve them you will need to add
STATIC_ROOT and STATIC_URL to the urlpatterns in a similar way that MEDIA_ROOT and MEDIA_URL are added
Change your URL's patterns:
from django.conf import settings
from django.conf.urls.static import static
urlpatterns = [
url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
] + static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)
for more info Django Docs
First point: don't put uploaded medias in you static directory - static is for static files that are part of your project (css, js etc) -, you want to use MEDIA_ROOT and MEDIA_URL for this.
wrt/ serving the static and media contents, it depends on the environment. On your local dev environment you want to use the staticfile.views to serve both static and medias as mentionned in the other answers, but don't do this in production : on a production server, you want to use your front web server to serve static (and media) contents.
I have created a django rest model which includes a FileField.
media = models.FileField(upload_to='media/%Y/%m/%d/', null=True, blank=True)
I also implemented serializer and ListCreateApiView. There I can able to upload a file. On POST request rest server uploads the file in folder and returns me the url. However, on get request, server return json content with the url. If I use the url for get request, server respond Page Not Found. How to download the uploaded file using django rest? Do I have to create separate view for the same? If so, how to do that?
Edit:
The resulting url is
http://localhost:8000/message/media/2015/12/06/aa_35EXQ7H.svg
You have to define MEDIA_ROOT, MEDIA_URL and register MEDIA_URL in urlpatterns to allow Django server to serve these files.
Follow these steps:
settings.py file:
MEDIA_URL = '/media/'
MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "media_root")
Append this in your main urls.py file to serve media files :
from django.conf import settings
from django.conf.urls.static import static
urlpatterns = [
# ... the rest of your URLconf goes here ...
] + static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)
Also, you don't have to add media again in upload_to attribute because it's prepended by MEDIA_URL, then the url will be /media/media/.
Here is a correct example:
media = models.FileField(upload_to='message/%Y/%m/%d/', null=True, blank=True)
and the url of the media will be:
http://localhost:8000/media/message/2015/12/06/aa_35EXQ7H.svg