Page not found 404 Django media files

Question

I am able to upload the files to media folder( '/peaceroot/www/media/') that I have set up in settings.py as below

MEDIA_ROOT = '/peaceroot/www/media/' MEDIA_URL = '/media/' 

But through admin I tried to access the uploaded image file

http://localhost:8000/media/items/1a39246c-4160-4cb2-a842-12a1ffd72b3b.jpg

then I am getting 404 error.

The file exists at peaceroot/www/media/items/1a39246c-4160-4cb2-a842-12a1ffd72b3b.jpg

Answer 1

Add media url entry in your project urlpatterns:

from django.conf.urls.static import static from django.conf import settings  ... urlpatterns += static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT) 

Answer 2

The better way for MEDIA_ROOT is,

try to make media path dynamic will be easy when you shift your project.

Settings.py

BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__))   MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'media').replace('\\', '/') MEDIA_URL = '/media/' 

urls.py

from django.conf import settings from django.conf.urls.static import static  urlpatterns = [     # ... the rest of your URLconf goes here ... ] + static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT) 

Look at this

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/static-files/