Re: new django user - no images appear on my site :(

You know, its really sad to see the disdain like this thrust upon a newbie. We all know you are superior, and that your understanding of Django and python is massive, and we bow to your intellect, but there are hundreds if not thousands of pages of reading, and we newbs are sorry if we don't

Re: new django user - no images appear on my site :(

On Jan 12, 6:45 pm, Brian Neal wrote: > On Jan 12, 4:58 pm, jazztpt wrote: > [...] > > > Brian, you understood me perfectly -- when I was asking about a tag, I > > was simply asking if django used a shortcut the way rails does, and > > {{MEDIA_URL}} is

Re: new django user - no images appear on my site :(

On Jan 12, 4:58 pm, jazztpt wrote: [...] > > Brian, you understood me perfectly -- when I was asking about a tag, I > was simply asking if django used a shortcut the way rails does, and > {{MEDIA_URL}} is what I was looking for.  Duh.  :P > > However, {{MEDIA_URL}}

Re: new django user - no images appear on my site :(

Thanks for the great help. Daniel, good eye - I copied & pasted without looking too carefully, and was trying to access the folder one level up. Once I changed that, I can now access the file as David suggested, directly via the url: http://localhost:8000/site_media/autodiag_title.jpg Brian,

Re: new django user - no images appear on my site :(

On Jan 12, 8:59 pm, jazztpt wrote: > Nope, that's not the problem.  I had read that page, and another that > suggested a slightly different syntax for the urlpatterns > (fromhttp://rob.cogit8.org/blog).  Sorry that I forgot to mention that I > had already put Rob's

Re: new django user - no images appear on my site :(

On Jan 12, 2:59 pm, jazztpt wrote: > > That page in the docs doesn't say anything about how to call this from > the view.  Are these files automatically accessed by an tag?  I > didn't see any special image tag (like the image_tag in rails) in the > template tags or in

Re: new django user - no images appear on my site :(

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 3:59 PM, jazztpt wrote: > > Nope, that's not the problem. I had read that page, and another that > suggested a slightly different syntax for the urlpatterns (from > http://rob.cogit8.org/blog). Sorry that I forgot to mention that I > had already

Re: new django user - no images appear on my site :(

Nope, that's not the problem. I had read that page, and another that suggested a slightly different syntax for the urlpatterns (from http://rob.cogit8.org/blog). Sorry that I forgot to mention that I had already put Rob's version in my code -- I wasn't sure if it was necessary simply to show

Re: new django user - no images appear on my site :(

On Jan 12, 6:35 pm, jazztpt wrote: > I'm building my first django app and having a few problems in my dev > environment.  I have a couple of images that I want to use in my > base.html template.  I have tried various configurations, but none of > my images show up.  I've

new django user - no images appear on my site :(

I'm building my first django app and having a few problems in my dev environment. I have a couple of images that I want to use in my base.html template. I have tried various configurations, but none of my images show up. I've tried putting the images in /media, in /media/ img, and in the main