Django serving media files (user uploaded files ) in openshift
django, django-media, openshift, python
Solution
Just for others to know, I solved my problem by correcting the RewriteRule adding media folder to the second part of the rule, so it became
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^application/media/(.+)$ /static/media/$1 [L]
Hope it helps others.
Problem
I have successfully deployed my Django project in openshift. But I need to be able to serve files that are uploaded by users. I user MEDIA_ROOT and MEDIA_URL for that. I followed this tutorial here, but nothing happened. I had to change MEDIA_ROOT because the one suggested there isn't correct i think. So my MEDIA_ROOT looks like ``` MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(os.environ.get('OPENSHIFT_DATA_DIR', ''),'media') MEDIA_URL = '/media/' ``` I added the .htaccess in /wsgi folder with as it says in the article ``` RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^application/media/(.+)$ /static/$1 [L] ``` and created the build script to make symbolic link of the media in static as the article says. ``` #!/bin/bash if [ ! -d $OPENSHIFT_DATA_DIR/media ]; then mkdir $OPENSHIFT_DATA_DIR/media fi ln -sf $OPENSHIFT_DATA_DIR/media $OPENSHIFT_REPO_DIR/wsgi/static/media ``` In my urls.py I have added the ``` urlpatterns += static(settings.MEDIA_ROOT, document_root=settings.MEDIA_URL) ``` but I still can't serve them. I also tried not to include the django static method in urls.py but the same result. In another tutorial .htacces is placed inside static folder. Am I doing something wrong?