Django Admin : Class Media - django

Question

I have a class Media as follows
class helloAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
class Media:
js = ['choice.js']
admin.site.register(hello,helloAdmin)
The staticfiles app prepends STATIC_URL to the media path. But I want MEDIA_URL to be prepended instead of STATIC_URL and STATIC_URL isn't empty. How can this be done?

Answer 1

You can achieve that with the following settings:
import os
CURRENT_PATH = os.path.abspath((os.path.dirname(__file__)))
MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(CURRENT_PATH, 'uploads')
MEDIA_URL = '/site_media/'
urls.py
from django.conf import settings
urlpatterns += patterns('',
url(r'^site_media/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve', {'document_root': settings.MEDIA_ROOT, 'show_indexes': True}),
)
admin.py
class helloAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
class Media:
js = ['/site_media/choice.js']
admin.site.register(hello,helloAdmin)
Using MEDIA_URL is not advised for serving static files. According to django documentation, MEDIA_URL will not be referred for media files, when STATIC_URL is not empty. Refer to this part of documentation.
So I recommend you to use the following settings:
STATIC_ROOT = 'static/'
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATICFILES_DIRS = (
os.path.join(CURRENT_PATH, 'media'),
)
admin.py
class helloAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
class Media:
js = ['choice.js']
admin.site.register(hello,helloAdmin)