How to manage media files on Windows? - django

Question

I want to get media files for Django when developing application. But they just don't set up. This is my settings:
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATIC_ROOT = BASE_DIR
STATICFILES_DIRS = (
STATIC_ROOT + '\\projectpackage\\static\\',
)
MEDIA_URL = '/media/'
MEDIA_ROOT = BASE_DIR + '\\projectpackage\\media\\'
Templatetag:
<img class="img-responsive" src="{{ project.image.url }}" alt="">
Urls:
urlpatterns = [
url(r'^profile/', include(profile.urls)),
url(r'', include(authentication.urls)),
url(r'^project/', include(project.urls)),
url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
url(r'^', 'views.index', name='index'),
url(r'^markdown/', include('django_bootstrap_markdown.urls')),
]
urlpatterns += staticfiles_urlpatterns()
urlpatterns += static(STATIC_URL, document_root=STATIC_ROOT)
urlpatterns += static(MEDIA_URL, document_root=MEDIA_ROOT)
I can't see my mistake, because I've tried every other advices in other questions. And everything works bizzare. Static files are running good, media uploading to media/prj_img, but when I try to show image at template I've got such strange result:
<img class="img-responsive" src="/media/C%3A/Development/projectdirectory/projectpackage/media/prj_img/wallhaven-131_od9FWLX.jpg" alt="">
How could I fix this media error? This is strange, because everything looks right. Why there are full path in url?
Edit:
BASE_DIR
BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__))
Also I've figured out that I've got wrong upload_to and changed it to prj_img. Now I've got following link:
<img class="img-responsive" src="/media/prj_img/wallhaven-24700.jpg" alt="">
But still it's not displating.

Answer 1

I have a lot of comments on your code.
STATIC_ROOT location is not appropriate. With your settings collectstatic command will put everything in your project's directory. Change it like so:
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static_files')
But take care, that this folder is accessable (both permissions and django-settings) in production.
Use os.path.join to join folders:
STATICFILES_DIRS = (
os.path.join(STATIC_ROOT, 'projectpackage', 'static')
)
This url pattern must be the last one and contain $:
url(r'^$', views.index, name='index'), # do not pass strings
These two url patterns do the same (docs):
urlpatterns += staticfiles_urlpatterns()
urlpatterns += static(STATIC_URL, document_root=STATIC_ROOT)
Moreover, you do not need them. Just ensure, that INSTALLED_APPS setting contains 'django.contrib.staticfiles'.