For a site I'm building (first website from scratch btw so new to django) I want to provide to the administrator a means to deploy images from the admin pages, which will be used to drive the business logic from the customer's perspective. However I want the administrator to be able to view these images from the admin page too. So I want one common images folder to be accessible from app views and the admin view. I currently have only one app named retailFilters.
Now actually deploying some files to my media/images folder isn't a problem, I add a record (specifying an image to upload) on the admin page and sure enough, the files are waiting exactly where I expected to be. I also realise I have to tell django where to serve them from, and from poking around the internet I have my MEDIA_ROOT, MEDIA_URL and urlpatterns defined as:
settings.py
...
parent_dir = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__) + '/..')
MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(parent_dir, 'media/')
MEDIA_URL = 'media/'
(and INSTALLED_APPS includes django.contrib.staticfiles))
urls.py
urlpatterns = [
url(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls),
]
urlpatterns += static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root = settings.MEDIA_ROOT)
However the response to clicking on them is that admin bails out with a banner error:
"Filter with ID "1/change/media/images/2012-03-29".27.05.jpg" doesn't exist. Perhaps it was deleted?"
My python version is 2.7.10
My django version is 1.11
My Directory structure at the moment (root is project directory) is as follows:
.
├── db.sqlite3
├── manage.py
├── media
│ └── images
│ └── 2012-03-29_22.27.05.jpg
├── NOTES
├── retailFilters
│ ├── admin.py
│ ├── admin.pyc
│ ├── apps.py
│ ├── fixtures
│ │ └── boltons.json
│ ├── __init__.py
│ ├── __init__.pyc
│ ├── migrations
│ │ ├── 0001_initial.py
│ │ ├── 0001_initial.pyc
│ │ ├── 0002_auto_20170816_1934.py
│ │ ├── 0002_auto_20170816_1934.pyc
│ │ ├── __init__.py
│ │ └── __init__.pyc
│ ├── models.py
│ ├── models.pyc
│ ├── tables
│ │ ├── Bolt_On_Group.py
│ │ ├── Bolt_On_Group.pyc
│ │ ├── Bolt_On.py
│ │ ├── Bolt_On.pyc
│ │ ├── Filter.py
│ │ ├── Filter.pyc
│ │ ├── __init__.py
│ │ ├── __init__.pyc
│ │ ├── Order_Payment.py
│ │ ├── Order_Payment.pyc
│ │ ├── Order.py
│ │ ├── Order.pyc
│ │ ├── Payment_Vendor.py
│ │ ├── Payment_Vendor.pyc
│ │ ├── User.py
│ │ └── User.pyc
│ ├── tests.py
│ └── views.py
├── snapify
│ ├── __init__.py
│ ├── __init__.pyc
│ ├── settings.py
│ ├── settings.pyc
│ ├── urls.py
│ ├── urls.pyc
│ ├── wsgi.py
│ └── wsgi.pyc
└── static
└── retailFilters
└── media
└── images
my admin.py has:
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from __future__ import unicode_literals
from django.contrib import admin
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
from django.contrib.auth.models import Group
from tables.Filter import Filter
admin.site.unregister(User)
admin.site.unregister(Group)
<...other un-related admin entries ...>
@admin.register(Filter)
class FILTER_Admin(admin.ModelAdmin) :
fields = ('DESCRIPTION', 'FILENAME', 'CATEGORY', 'PRICE')
#list_display = ('show_image',)
and my model for Filter is:
Filter.py
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from __future__ import unicode_literals
from django.db import models
from django.core.exceptions import ValidationError
from django.core.files.storage import FileSystemStorage
import os
import pdb
categories = {'T': 'Personalised Template',
'C': 'Custom Filter'}
images = 'images'
class Filter(models.Model) :
FILTER_REFERENCE = models.IntegerField(primary_key = True)
FILENAME = models.ImageField(upload_to = images)
DESCRIPTION = models.TextField()
CATEGORY = models.CharField(max_length = 1, null = True, choices = [(x, categories[x]) for x in categories])
PRICE = models.DecimalField(default = 0.00, max_digits = 5, decimal_places = 2)
def __unicode__(self) :
return self.DESCRIPTION
#def show_image(self) :
# #pdb.set_trace()
# return '<a href="{0}"><img src="{0}"></a>'.format(self.FILENAME)
#show_image.allow_tags = True
and the last output from the runserver commandline:
System check identified no issues (0 silenced).
August 16, 2017 - 20:03:42
Django version 1.11.1, using settings 'snapify.settings'
Starting development server at http://127.0.0.1:8000/
Quit the server with CONTROL-C.
[16/Aug/2017 20:03:44] "GET /admin/ HTTP/1.1" 200 4683
[16/Aug/2017 20:03:47] "GET /admin/retailFilters/filter/ HTTP/1.1" 200 4203
[16/Aug/2017 20:03:47] "GET /admin/jsi18n/ HTTP/1.1" 200 3217
[16/Aug/2017 20:03:55] "POST /admin/retailFilters/filter/ HTTP/1.1" 200 3175
[16/Aug/2017 20:03:57] "POST /admin/retailFilters/filter/ HTTP/1.1" 302 0
[16/Aug/2017 20:03:57] "GET /admin/retailFilters/filter/ HTTP/1.1" 200 3189
[16/Aug/2017 20:03:58] "GET /admin/jsi18n/ HTTP/1.1" 200 3217
[16/Aug/2017 20:04:04] "GET /admin/retailFilters/filter/ HTTP/1.1" 200 3067
[16/Aug/2017 20:04:06] "GET /admin/retailFilters/ HTTP/1.1" 200 3167
[16/Aug/2017 20:04:08] "GET /admin/retailFilters/filter/add/ HTTP/1.1" 200 5420
[16/Aug/2017 20:04:08] "GET /admin/jsi18n/ HTTP/1.1" 200 3217
[16/Aug/2017 20:04:20] "POST /admin/retailFilters/filter/add/ HTTP/1.1" 302 0
[16/Aug/2017 20:04:20] "GET /admin/retailFilters/filter/ HTTP/1.1" 200 4391
[16/Aug/2017 20:04:20] "GET /admin/jsi18n/ HTTP/1.1" 200 3217
[16/Aug/2017 20:04:23] "GET /admin/retailFilters/filter/1/change/ HTTP/1.1" 200 5789
[16/Aug/2017 20:04:23] "GET /admin/jsi18n/ HTTP/1.1" 200 3217
[16/Aug/2017 20:04:25] "GET /admin/retailFilters/filter/1/change/media/images/2012-03-29_22.27.05.jpg/ HTTP/1.1" 302 0
[16/Aug/2017 20:04:25] "GET /admin/retailFilters/filter/1/change/media/images/2012-03-29_22.27.05.jpg/change/ HTTP/1.1" 302 0
[16/Aug/2017 20:04:25] "GET /admin/ HTTP/1.1" 200 5427
[16/Aug/2017 20:04:29] "GET /admin/retailFilters/filter/1/change/ HTTP/1.1" 200 5789
Sorry if this has been asked countless times but I've spent a solid 5 hours scouring the internet on this problem and am still unsuccessful.
Can anyone point out what I'm missing?
