I am learning Django by developing a blog. My code was working in both Linux and Windows. Recently, I started added images to my models with ImageField and it works in Linux but I can't get it to work in Windows. I am using a standalone server. Here is my settings.py file:
MEDIA_ROOT = 'C:/django/third_blog/zblog/media_files/'
MEDIA_URL = 'C:/django/third_blog/zblog/media_files/'
STATIC_ROOT = 'C:/django/third_blog/zblog/static'
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATICFILES_DIRS = (
'C:/django/third_blog/zblog/media_files/',
)
TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
'C:/django/third_blog/zblog/templates',
)
INSTALLED_APPS = (
'django.contrib.auth',
'django.contrib.contenttypes',
'django.contrib.sessions',
'django.contrib.sites',
'django.contrib.messages',
'django.contrib.staticfiles',
# Uncomment the next line to enable the admin:
'django.contrib.admin',
'blog',
)
I fiddled around with the MEDIA_ROOT, MEDIA_URL, STATIC_ROOT, and STATIC URL to get the code working in Linux. I installed pillow-2.8.1 in windows using pip.
This is my html file in template directory:
{% load staticfiles %}
<a href = "/">Back to homepage </a>
{% if list_of_blog_entries %}
<ol>
{% for blog_entry in list_of_blog_entries %}
<li> {% for blog_item in blog_entry %}
{% if blog_item.image %}
<img src = "{{ blog.item.url }}" height=100> </br>
{% endif %}
{% endfor %} </li> </br> </br>
{% endfor %}
</ol>
{% else %}
<p> Blog is empty </p>
{% endif %}
This is my views.py file:
# other imports
import zblog.settings as settings_file
#from PIL import *
import PIL
def list_posts(request):
"""
Lists the posts with their contents on a single page.
"""
###
# I stands for image or photo.
if post_item == "I":
items_in_post.append(post.postimage_set.get(image_id=post_item_id))
try_image=post.postimage_set.get(image_id=post_item_id)
print try_image.image.url
print settings_file.MEDIA_ROOT+try_image.image.url
print try_image.image
print
print
image_counter += 1
list_of_blog_entries.append(items_in_post)
return render_to_response("blog/list_posts.html", \
{'list_of_blog_entries' : list_of_blog_entries, \
'image_root':settings_file.MEDIA_URL})
I have a lot of other code that I have not posted. I have forms for uploading an image. The image is successfully uploaded and is found in the subdirectory media_file/blog. When I try to list the image with , it shows a broken link to the image. So I printed out the url with "print try_image.image.url" in views.py to find that the url is with respect to the home directory "blog/IMG.jpg". So I added the MEDIA_ROOT and find that I now get the complete directory path "C:/django/third_blog/zblog/media_files/blog/IMG.jpg".
I passed the variable MEDIA_ROOT to the template and changed the template to
<img src = "{{ image_root }}{{ blog.item.url }}">
Now I get a blank space where the image should have been. Spent the past hour googling and found the links I first used to get it going in Linux. Is there anything specific to Windows? I am using Django 1.7 with Python 2.7.3.
Thanks in advance.
*************EDIT********* My directory structure is:
C:
django
thrid_blog
zblog
blog
media_files
static
zblog
manage.py
My settings.py file in the last zblog directory. So, I put:
BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
in my manage.py file and in my settings.py file, I put
import sys
sys.path.append("c:\django\third_blog\zblog")
from manage import BASE_DIR
to get BASE_DIR pointing to the home directory of the project which contains the directories blog, media_files, static, zblog. But it still doesn't work.
Also, even when I hardcode the image into the HTML:
<img src = "C:\django\third_blog\zblog\media_files\blog\IMG_20141125_104718.jpg" height=100> </br>
It still doesn't show the image. It gives me a blank space.
