Django Displaying images uploaded by ImageField properly - django

Question

I'm building my own porfolio using Django, and I just had a question regarding uploading images using the ImageField.
I uploaded an image through the admin page using ImageField, and after a long search session, finally got my page to display the image successfully.
urls.py
from django.contrib import admin
from django.urls import include, path
from django.conf import settings
from django.conf.urls.static import static
urlpatterns = [
path('',include('pages.urls')), # main landing page
path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
path('project/',include("projects.urls"))
] + static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)
projects.html
<img src="{{project.image.url}}">
However, the official django docs say that this is not a good way to deploy a django site. Why is that, and what is the best/proper way to display images?

Answer 1

The reason is also given in documentation:
This method is grossly inefficient and probably insecure, so it is unsuitable for production.
Proper way of deploying media files in production is to use a reverse proxy server like NGINX or Apache, or you can use a S3 compatible storage(like Amazon S3) to serve those media files as well. I can give you an example configuration in NGINX for serving media files:
location /media {
alias /path/to/media/direcoty; # Change to your own media directory here.
access_log off;
}