In django, what is correct setup for media deployment on python anywhere

Question

I am trying to deploy my django app on python anywhere, but I believe media_urls or media_root may be set incorrectly. I also spent time trying to figure out how to print all valid urls on django, but nothing work for me on this link. Django : How can I see a list of urlpatterns?.

I received a "ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'django.core.urlresolvers'"

from .base import *

DEBUG = False

ALLOWED_HOSTS = ["*"]

MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "images")
MEDIA_URL = '/snapcapsule/'
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "static")

Answer

Perhaps this could help https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43139081/importerror-no-module-named-django-core-urlresolvers — Monish K Nair, Jul 10 '18 at 02:42
in server you do DEBUG = False so you need nginx and add url in url paterns you can find more answer on django documentation https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.0/howto/static-files/ — Maulik Harkhani, Jul 10 '18 at 04:54

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 10 '18 at 11:12

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Your static file mapping for images is at at /images, but you're accessing the image from /snapcapsule/images. Either change your media_url or your static file mapping so that they match.

answered Jul 10 '18 at 11:12

Glenn

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Waket Zheng · Answer 2 · 2019-06-10T02:19:31.680

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Most of the time, I server static and media with django at local and with nginx in server.

At local:

# at the end of urls.py
if settings.DEBUG:
    # debug toolbar
    import debug_toolbar

    urlpatterns.insert(0, path("__debug__/", include(debug_toolbar.urls)))

    # static and media
    from django.conf.urls.static import static
    from django.contrib.staticfiles.urls import staticfiles_urlpatterns

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

In server:

# nginx.conf
server {
    ...
    location /static/ {
        alias /path/to/project/static_collection/;
    }

    location /media/ {
        alias /path/to/project/media/;
    }
}

edited Jun 10 '19 at 02:19

answered Jul 10 '18 at 06:19

Waket Zheng

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I don't think you use nginx with pythonanywhere. It has it on method of displaying media content – Rahmi Pruitt Jul 11 '18 at 04:25
My media root and url are all ok, but I was facing this same problem due to the nginx configuration. Thanks. – ni8mr Jun 09 '19 at 09:10

In django, what is correct setup for media deployment on python anywhere

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