Can't display images from models of django

Question

Since I have faced this problem many times and couldn't find a solution, I need help

Here's my settings file. I've configured media root

from pathlib import Path
import os
import django_heroku
import django
# Build paths inside the project like this: BASE_DIR / 'subdir'.
BASE_DIR = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent


# Quick-start development settings - unsuitable for production
# See https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.1/howto/deployment/checklist/

# SECURITY WARNING: keep the secret key used in production secret!
SECRET_KEY = 'ws^pgf$%!=l8y#%^7anp$rl6*o4u9!86g-ba_uq9pcee=vc@13'

# SECURITY WARNING: don't run with debug turned on in production!
DEBUG = True

ALLOWED_HOSTS = []


# Application definition

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    'home',
]

MIDDLEWARE = [
    'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
]

ROOT_URLCONF = 'testimage.urls'

TEMPLATES = [
    {
        'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
        'DIRS': [os.path.join(BASE_DIR,'templates')],
        'APP_DIRS': True,
        'OPTIONS': {
            'context_processors': [
                'django.template.context_processors.debug',
                'django.template.context_processors.request',
                'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
                'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
            ],
        },
    },
]

WSGI_APPLICATION = 'testimage.wsgi.application'


# Database
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.1/ref/settings/#databases

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
        'NAME': BASE_DIR / 'db.sqlite3',
    }
}


# Password validation
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.1/ref/settings/#auth-password-validators

AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS = [
    {
        'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.UserAttributeSimilarityValidator',
    },
    {
        'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.MinimumLengthValidator',
    },
    {
        'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.CommonPasswordValidator',
    },
    {
        'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.NumericPasswordValidator',
    },
]


# Internationalization
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.1/topics/i18n/

LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-us'

TIME_ZONE = 'UTC'

USE_I18N = True

USE_L10N = True

USE_TZ = True


# Static files (CSS, JavaScript, Images)
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.1/howto/static-files/

STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATICFILES_DIRS = [os.path.join(BASE_DIR,"static")]
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR,'staticfiles')


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

django_heroku.settings(locals())

STATICFILES_STORAGE = 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage'

And this is a simple models just to add and display images

from django.db import models

# Create your models here.
class Images(models.Model):
    photo = models.ImageField(blank=True, null=True, default=None)
    title = models.CharField(max_length=250)
    def __str__(self):
        return self.title

Here's my views.py and the template

from django.shortcuts import render
from home.models import Images
# Create your views here.
def index(request):
    images = Images.objects.all()
    context = {
        'images':images
    }
    return render(request,'home.html',context)

home.html

{%for i in images %}
<img src="{{i.photo.url}}" alt="">
{%endfor%}

Everytime I try to load that page, I always get this error:

[15/Feb/2021 11:57:12] "GET /media/20210129_205930.jpg HTTP/1.1" 404 2130
[15/Feb/2021 11:57:12] "GET /media/20201227_111422.jpg HTTP/1.1" 404 2130

I know it is telling that there is something wrong with the media path but I checked it all but can't find any wrong point. Please take a look

Answer 1

i hope you done all your url.py code as mention above so image is a file so you have to request for file like this

def index(request.FILES, request.POST):
    images = Images.objects.all()
    context = {
              'images':images
                }
    return render(request,'home.html',context)

and in yours html file form tag use enctype

<form action="{% url 'name' %}" method'POST' enctype="multipart/form-data">

and remove you default from your image class if you want you image can be blank=True no need of default in that and what i can see in your model yo didnt define path whwe you image has to be stored something like this

profile_pic = models.ImageField(upload_to='profile_pics',default='default.png',)

and in your main urls.py add

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

i hope this will help and tell me if you got any error

Answer 2

It seems you haven't added media urls in your url.py file, so you can do something like this

# make your imports
from django.conf import settings 
from django.conf.urls.static import static

urlpatterns = [
      ....
]

# for Debugging
if settings.DEBUG:
    urlpatterns = urlpatterns + static(settings.STATIC_URL, document_root=settings.STATIC_ROOT)
    urlpatterns = urlpatterns + static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)