Compare the path to the image with what Django is putting in. I
probably have something set up less than optimally somewhere, but I
have to do something like <img src="/media/{{model.image" />
On Jan 24, 10:35 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi group,
>
> I'm just getting started with Django and I've run into a snag with
> images: I've set up the image portion of my site following these
> directions from the Django FAQ:
>
> 1) "In your settings file, define MEDIA_ROOT as the full path to a
> directory where you'd like Django to store uploaded files."
> ** mine is set as the absolute path on my machine
>
> 2) "Define MEDIA_URL as the base public URL of that directory. Make
> sure that this directory is writable by the Web server's user account.
> "
> ** have tried this as both the absolute path and the http path, neither
> works
>
> 3) "Add the FileField or ImageField to your model, making sure to
> define the upload_to option to tell Django to which subdirectory of
> MEDIA_ROOT it should upload files."
> ** used "specimen_image=models.ImageField(upload_to='public/')" in
> models.py
>
> 4) "you can get the absolute URL to your image in a template with {{
> object.get_mug_shot_url }}."
> ** in my template, I refer to <img
> src="{{specimen.get_specimen_image_url}}>
>
> When I access the template's associated script through a browser, only
> the alt text is displayed (no image). I can access the image directly
> by entering the absolute path into my browser, but must be missing
> something somewhere along the way in Django. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks! Go Django!
> Heather Y.
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