StaticFiles vs MediaFiles

Question

What is the difference between static files and media files? Django says that the SATIC_ROOT and MEDIA_ROOT must be different. I just know that in static folder we can have css files and images or other files to be uploaded goes to media folder. I have directory as

static

|-->images

|-->css

in settings.py >>

STATIC_URL = 'static/'

STATICFILES_DIRS = [ BASE_DIR / 'static' ]

MEDIA_URL = '/images/'

MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static/images')

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Is the ROOT and URL for static and media files are okay or not?

Answer 1

• MEDIA_ROOT is the folder where files uploaded using FileField will go.

• STATIC_ROOT is the folder where static files will be stored after using manage.py collectstatic

• We generally use STATIC_ROOT in production