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Riaan
Riaan

Reputation: 195

Site not serving media files but serving static files correctly

I have a Django site in production. Static files are being served fine, but media files are failing to be retrieved.

my setting.py :

PROJECT_ROOT = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT, 'static')
STATIC_URL = '/static/'

MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT, 'media')
MEDIA_URL = "media/"

I tried with both "/media/" and "media/", first ones url is shown incorrectly in the HTML when using the .url attribute.

My Apache config:

Alias /static/ /var/www/MySite/static/
<Directory /var/www/MySite/static>
    Require all granted
</Directory>

Alias /media/ /var/www/MySite/media/
<Directory /var/www/MySite/media>
    Require all granted
</Directory>

In the view I retrieve as follows:

{% for photo in photos %}
        <div class="col-md-3 photo-wrapper">
            <img src="{{ photo.image.url }}"/>
        </div>
{% endfor %}

and URL gets generated as http://mysite.co.za/media/profile_photos/photo.png

Files do get uploaded as I can see them on the VPS Server, but when retrieving it fails, throwing a 404 not found.

It does work in Debug mode because I have the following in my urls.py

+ static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)

but this does not work when debug mode is off. How would I go about serving these media files?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 119

Answers (1)

Ward
Ward

Reputation: 2852

Are you sure /var/www/MySite/media is your media directory?

Maybe you confuse the staticfiles (which are collected by the collectstatic command) with the mediafiles, which are saved by users of the webapp.

Looking at your settings, I believe your apache configuration should serve PROJECT_ROOT + '/media'.

Or, you change your settings file so that MEDIA_ROOT = /var/www/MySite/media

Upvotes: 1

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