can't get media files in heroku

Question

I deployed mu project in heroku successfully.

The only problem is that I can't find media files on heroku.

When I type .../media/pic1.png locally , I get the picture in the browser.

But, in heroku,, that gives

Page not found (404)
Request Method: GET
Request URL: ...../media/pic1.png
Raised by: django.views.static.serve

Path ...../media/pic1.png doesn't exist

settings.py

MEDIA_URL = '/media/'
MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'media/')

project/urls.py

urlpatterns = [
  url(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls),
  url(r'^admin_platform/', include('admin_platform.urls')),
]+ static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)

https://stackoverflow.com/a/41648399/7976758 Do not store media files at Heroku. — phd, Aug 13 '17 at 10:15
... and do not use `static.serve` in production. There's a big warning against doing that. — Daniel Roseman, Aug 13 '17 at 11:07

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 14 '20 at 06:51

Your setting.py should look something like this:-

MEDIA_URL = '/media/'
MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'media')#by doing this there will be media folder in your main directory.

And in your url.py your code should be like this:-

urlpatterns = [
url(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls),
url(r'^admin_platform/', include('admin_platform.urls')),
]

urlpatterns += static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)#this will help to access your media folder.

Hope this help in your project. :-)

can't get media files in heroku

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