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Media files not rendering

I have a Django website I deployed here. Whenever I changed the debug to False, the media files are not displaying on the website. I don't know why this is happening.

qrgen51 | 4 posts | Aug. 18, 2022, 5:43 p.m. | permalink

That's because Django does not serve static files when DEBUG is False: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.1/howto/static-files/#serving-static-files-during-development

Staff glenn | 9498 posts | PythonAnywhere staff | Aug. 18, 2022, 5:59 p.m. | permalink

Oh! Thank you.

Can I, perhaps, have a workaround for that?

qrgen51 | 4 posts | Aug. 18, 2022, 9:58 p.m. | permalink

Setup static files: https://help.pythonanywhere.com/pages/DjangoStaticFiles/

Staff fjl | 4352 posts | PythonAnywhere staff | Aug. 19, 2022, 9:28 a.m. | permalink

Thank you, I did that before.

And I have been able to solve the problem. I later saw that I was putting the URL in quotes in the media section.

qrgen51 | 4 posts | Aug. 19, 2022, 10:58 a.m. | permalink

So it works for you now?

Staff fjl | 4352 posts | PythonAnywhere staff | Aug. 19, 2022, 1:08 p.m. | permalink

Yes, it works now

qrgen51 | 4 posts | Aug. 20, 2022, 4:14 p.m. | permalink