Question

I can succesfully save a file via Django admin in one of my models but cannot open the file aftewards. Here is my model:

class Answer (models.Model):
    answer = models.CharField(max_length=1000)
    attach_file = models.FileField(upload_to='Attachments', blank=True)

I have not touched the settings file and to my understanding it should use defaults values:

MEDIA_ROOT = ''
MEDIA_URL = ''
STATIC_ROOT = ''

I registered the model in the admin.py and I was able to Browse a file and save it. When trying to open that file, i get:

Page not found (404)
Request Method: GET
Request URL: http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/businessui/answer/1/Attachments/outlook.png/
answer object with primary key u'1/Attachments/outlook.png' does not exist.

Could someone point out what I am missing here to be able to also open saved files locally on my dev machine?

Answer 1

In reference to @Sawwy’s comment on @RicardoCarmo’s answer. I post as an answer for the formatting.

Here’s what I use in my main url conf:

if getattr(settings, 'DEBUG', False) or getattr(settings, 'DEBUG_MEDIA', False):
    media_url = getattr(settings, 'MEDIA_URL', '/media/').lstrip('/')
    urlpatterns = patterns('',
        url(r'^%s(?P<path>.*)$' % (media_url,), 'django.views.static.serve', {
            'document_root': settings.MEDIA_ROOT
        }),
    ) + urlpatterns

Note that in a production environment, your media files should be served up by the web server and those requests should not reach Django. That is why it’s qualified with if DEBUG or DEBUG_MEDIA.