[Answer]-Django recognizes static address but not media

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You need to add this to your urls.py file 

if settings.DEBUG :
    urlpatterns += patterns('',
        (r'^media/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve', {'document_root': settings.MEDIA_ROOT, 'show_indexes': True}),
    )

So, It should looks like this:

from django.conf.urls import patterns, include, url
from django.contrib import admin
from mysite.views import *

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    url(r'^$', 'mysite.views.home', name='home'),
    url(r'^home/', 'mysite.views.gohome'),
    url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
)

    if settings.DEBUG :
        urlpatterns += patterns('',
            (r'^media/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve', {'document_root': settings.MEDIA_ROOT, 'show_indexes': True}),
        )

With this you can serve the static media from Django when DEBUG=True
(when you are on local computer) but you can let your web server
configuration serve static media when you go to production and
DEBUG=False

👤levi

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Alternatively to Levi’s answer, you can do:

from django.contrib.staticfiles.urls import staticfiles_urlpatterns

...
urlpatterns += staticfiles_urlpatterns()

You need to set STATICFILES_DIRS in your settings.
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/ref/contrib/staticfiles/#django.contrib.staticfiles.urls.staticfiles_urlpatterns

The other alternative is:

from django.conf import settings
from django.conf.urls.static import static

...
urlpatterns += static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)

I like this last one the most because it’s obvious what happens.

Both only serve when DEBUG is True.

👤allcaps

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