can't figure out serving static images in django dev environment
- by photographer
I've read the article (and few others on the subject), but still can't figure out how to show an image unless a link to a file existing on a web-service is hard-coded into the html template.
I've got in urls.py:
...
(r'^galleries/(landscapes)/(?P<path>.jpg)$',
'django.views.static.serve', {'document_root': settings.MEDIA_URL}),
...
where 'landscapes' is one of the albums I'm trying to show images from. (There are several more of them.)
In views.py it calls the template with code like that:
...
<li><img src=160.jpg alt='' title='' /></li>
...
which resolves the image link in html into:
http://127.0.0.1:8000/galleries/landscapes/160.jpg
In settings.py I have:
MEDIA_ROOT = 'C:/siteURL/galleries/'
MEDIA_URL = 'http://some-good-URL/galleries/'
In file system there is a file C:/siteURL/galleries/landscapes/160.jpg and I do have the same file at http://some-good-URL/galleries/landscapes/160.jpg
No matter what I use in urls.py — MEDIA_ROOT or MEDIA_URL (with expectation to have either local images served or from the web-server) — I get following in the source code in the browser:
<li><img src=160.jpg /></li>
There is no image shown in the browser.
What am I doing wrong?
