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Kamil Javed
Kamil Javed

Reputation: 3

Make MEDIA_ROOT point to a website url instead of a local directory

So i have two Django projects, a main and a child-site, both are running on separate servers with separate domain-names. The media files are stored on and can only be posted to the main site, but the child-site has to access those media files somehow.

How can i configure the MEDIA_ROOT setting (or something else, for that matter, in my project) so that the media files are automatically fetched from my main site. Or what changes can i make so that a fixed URL (of my main site) is added as a prefix when addressing any sort of media file.

P.S. i am using pythonanywhere (two beginner/free accts., one for each site).

Upvotes: 0

Views: 631

Answers (1)

sax
sax

Reputation: 3806

I think you can simply ignore MEDIA_ROOT and set MEDIA_URL. MEDIA_ROOT is used to fetch resources where MEDIA_URL is used to build the url.

@see https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/ref/settings/#std:setting-MEDIA_URL

Please read the difference between MEDIA_ and STATIC_. MEDIA is for user-uploaded files.

More at:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/topics/files/

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/howto/static-files/

Upvotes: 1

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