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/

Answer 3

Just to add: in case the other answers do not work for you, try putting the static url before the other ones. Like so:

urlpatterns = static(...) + [...]

What may be happening is that some of your patterns in the list prevent the request from reaching the static handlers. So putting the static handlers first solves this. Worked for me.