I'm working on uploading/displaying images with Django.
The website is deployed on Heroku.
Following this tutorial I was able to successfully upload images.
However, the images weren't being displayed in the template.
I then learned that my urls.py should have this line at the end:
+ static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)
I added this to the end of my urls.py but now I'm getting this error:
ImproperlyConfigured at / Empty static prefix not permitted
I have MEDIA_URL and MEDIA_ROOT in my settings.py and neither are empty.
BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'media')
# URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT. Make sure to use a
# trailing slash.
# Examples: "http://example.com/media/", "http://media.example.com/"
MEDIA_URL = '/media/'
Why is this error happening and how would I fix it?
Here's what I think is the relevant part of my urls.py:
from django.contrib import admin
from django.conf import settings
from django.conf.urls.static import static
import notifications
admin.autodiscover()
urlpatterns = patterns('',
....urls......
) + static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)
I added the same line in my urls.py and got the same error as you.
+ static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)
The documentation here says to use settings.STATIC_URL and settings.STATIC_ROOT
I changed it to the documentation version
urlpatterns = patterns('',
....urls......
) + static(settings.STATIC_URL, document_root=settings.STATIC_ROOT)
and the error went away!
I checked my settings file and made sure settings.MEDIA_URL and settings.MEDIA_ROOT were both defined correctly. Later I adjusted urls.py back to using settings.MEDIA_URL and settings.MEDIA_ROOT. Everything worked as expected.
These are the relevant parts of my settings.py file:
BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__))
REPOSITORY_ROOT = os.path.dirname(BASE_DIR)
# Static files (CSS, JavaScript, Images)
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.6/howto/static-files/
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(REPOSITORY_ROOT, 'static/')
MEDIA_URL = '/media/'
MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(REPOSITORY_ROOT, 'media/')
I think MEDIA_URL was set incorrectly