Cannot get images to display in simple django site

django, image

Solution

Change your media or admin URL / prefix to something different.

They cannot have both the same value. If they do, `ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX` has precedence. That means if you try to access `http://127.0.0.1:8000/media`, you are trying to access the admin media folder.

Either change the `ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX`:

ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX = '/admin-media/'

or change the `MEDIA_ROOT`:

# in settings.py

MEDIA_ROOT = '/home/jeroen/programming/python/django/ninikske/static'
MEDIA_URL = 'http://127.0.0.1:8000/static/'

# and in url.conf

(r'^static/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve',
 {'document_root': settings.MEDIA_ROOT}),

Problem

I have a very simple django site but I have trouble getting the images that I upload in the admin panel to show. my `settings.py` has these constants: ``` # Absolute path to the directory that holds media. # Example: "/home/media/media.lawrence.com/" MEDIA_ROOT = '/home/jeroen/programming/python/django/sitename/media' # URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT. Make sure to use a # trailing slash if there is a path component (optional in other cases). # Examples: "http://media.lawrence.com", "http://example.com/media/" MEDIA_URL = 'http://127.0.0.1:8000/media/' # URL prefix for admin media -- CSS, JavaScript and images. Make sure to use a # trailing slash. # Examples: "http://foo.com/media/", "/media/". ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX = '/media/' ``` my `urls.py` looks like this: ``` from django.conf.urls.defaults import * from django.conf import settings # Uncomment the next two lines to enable the admin: from django.contrib import admin admin.autodiscover() urlpatterns = patterns('', # Example: # (r'^sitename/', include('sitename.foo.urls')), # Uncomment the admin/doc line below and add 'django.contrib.admindocs' # to INSTALLED_APPS to enable admin documentation: (r'^admin/doc/', include('django.contrib.admindocs.urls')), # Uncomment the next line to enable the admin: (r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)), # http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/static-files/ # This method is inefficient and insecure. # Do not use this in a production setting. # Use this only for development. (r'^media/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve', {'document_root': settings.MEDIA_ROOT}), ) ``` and my `models.py` looks like this: ``` from django.db import models class Truitje(models.Model): titel = models.CharField(max_length=50) beschrijving = models.TextField(max_length=500) foto = models.ImageField(upload_to='truitjes') def __unicode__(self): return self.titel ``` I can successfully upload pictures in the admin interface and they get stored in `/home/jeroen/programming/python/django/sitename/media/truitjes`. But When I go to for example `http://127.0.0.1:8000/media/truitjes/DSC00068.JPG` I get an error: `Page not found: /media/truitjes/DSC00068.JPG`. Same for `http://127.0.0.1:8000/media/truitjes`, and ``http://127.0.0.1:8000/media/`gives`Permission denied: /media/`.

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