[Answered ]-Do I always have to run collectstatic to serve uploaded images by apache?

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You should separate media files from static files. Media are for user-uploaded files, and static are for developer-provided files (usually styles and scripts). MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT should point to different directories. You run collectstatic to copy all static files from Your source code and various apps (also third-party) to STATIC_ROOT, so Apache can serve them. You don’t need to run collectstatic and anything special to serve Your media files.

Example config:

Alias /static/ C:/Users/Robin/static/
Alias /media/ C:/Users/Robin/media/

<Directory C:/Users/Robin/static>
    Order deny,allow
    Allow from all
</Directory>

<Directory C:/Users/Robin/media>
    Order deny,allow
    Allow from all
</Directory>
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