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Roger
Roger

Reputation: 4797

Image in Django admin is generated with wrong URL

I'm trying out Django and ran into the following problem:

I have a model class Property which has various attributes amongst which is an image. The image property is defined as:

image = models.FileField(
    upload_to = 'properties',
    default = 'properties/house.jpeg')

The directory properties is a sub directory of images which is defined in settings.py as:

MEDIA_ROOT = '/Users/.../Development/pms/images/'
MEDIA_URL = 'http://localhost:8000/images/'

Derived from similar posts on SO regarding this topic, I added the following to my Property model:

def admin_image(self):
    return '<img src="images/%s" width="100"/>' % self.image
admin_image.allow_tags = True

I then added admin_image() as a property to the list display:

list_display = ('admin_image', ...)

When I check the URL for the image in the admin application, I get the following:

http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/properties/property/images/properties/house.jpeg/

This generates a 404 as the URL is generated incorrectly. Firstly the path is incorrect and secondly there's a trailing / at the end of the URL.

I'm obviously missing something... What do I do wrong?

EDIT:

Thanks to @okm for the various pointers. I did the following:

Added the following to my urls.py:

from django.contrib.staticfiles.urls import staticfiles_urlpatterns
from django.conf import settings

... original url patterns ...

urlpatterns += staticfiles_urlpatterns()

if settings.DEBUG:
    urlpatterns += patterns('',
        url(r'^images/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve', {
            'document_root': settings.MEDIA_ROOT,
        }),
   )

Then in settings.py set MEDIA_ROOT:

absolute/filesystem/path/to/images

And in settings.py set MEDIA_URL:

/images/

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2862

Answers (1)

okm
okm

Reputation: 23871

According to the doc & here, try self.image.url instead of '...' % self.image

Upvotes: 1

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