Question

I’m trying to create my first site in django and I’ve run into a problem. I’m trying to serve pictures,but it isn’t working correctly. I have it set up in the following way:
In settings.py:

MEDIA_ROOT = 'C:/Users/John/Documents/My Dropbox/Infostuff/filmsite/media/'
MEDIA_URL = 'localhost:8000/static/'  
ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX = '/admin-media/'

In urls.py:

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

It looks like this in the template page:

<img src="{{MEDIA_URL}}{{a.picture.url}}">

And it is parsed to this:

<img src="localhost:8000/static/portrets/0000138_Leonardo_D.jpg">

When I open the html page it doesn’t display the pictures (I get the broken picture icon). If I however go to view the source and copy the above url and past it directly into my browser it does load the picture. What am I doing wrong?

I’m using Django 1.2. I’m not using Apache yet, because I would first like to get it working in a development environment.

PS: This is the first time I’m asking a question on this site, if I did something wrong, please tell.

Answer 1

use:

MEDIA_URL = 'http://localhost:8000/static/' 

or

MEDIA_URL = '/static/'