404, media files are not served during development

Hi ALL, 

I was trying to render user uploaded media files into the template during development but it  throws out a 404 only on the media files. The all other context variables are rendered except the media files. And of course, the video doesn't play, hence the 404. I am using django 1.9.1 and python 2.7.9. 

Here's the 404 result on the terminal:

[07/Jan/2016 06:57:21] "GET /pi_app/video_entry/my-first-video-post/ HTTP/1.1" 200 678

Not Found: /media/video_entries/HALAYONG_BUNTOD_nExLhqF.mp4

[07/Jan/2016 06:57:21] "GET /media/video_entries/HALAYONG_BUNTOD_nExLhqF.mp4 HTTP/1.1" 404 2157

Here's the  settings file. I only included the code relevant to the current issue.

settings.py

....
....

INSTALLED_APPS = (

   'django.contrib.admin',

   'django.contrib.auth',

   'django.contrib.contenttypes',

   'django.contrib.sessions',

   'django.contrib.messages',

   'django.contrib.staticfiles',

   'pi_app',

)

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (

   'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',

   'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',

   'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',

   'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',

   'django.contrib.auth.middleware.SessionAuthenticationMiddleware',

   'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',

   'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',

   'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',

TEMPLATES = [

   {

       'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',

       'DIRS':[os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates')],

       'APP_DIRS': True,

       'OPTIONS': {

           'context_processors': [

               'django.template.context_processors.debug',

               'django.template.context_processors.request',

               'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',

               'django.template.context_processors.i18n',

               'django.template.context_processors.media',

               'django.template.context_processors.static',

               'django.template.context_processors.tz',

               'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',

               

           ],

       },

   },

]

STATIC_URL = '/static/'

STATIC_PATH = (os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static'),

              '/var/www/static/',)

STATICFILES_DIRS = (

   STATIC_PATH,

)

MEDIA_URL = '/media/'

MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'media')

Here's is my urls.py

from django.conf.urls import url

from django.conf import settings

from django.conf.urls.static import static

 

from . import views

urlpatterns = [

   url(r'^$', views.UserMainView.as_view(), name='index'),

   url(r'^upload_file/$', views.upload_file, name='upload_file'),

   url(r'^video_entry/(?P<video_slug>[\w-]+)/$', views.video_entry, name='video_entry'),

   

] + static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)

Here is my models.py

class Entry(models.Model):

    VIDEO_ENTRY_TYPE = (

        ('TALK/PRESENTATION', 'Talk/Presentation'),

        ('LECTURE', 'Lecture'),

        ....
        ....

    )

    user = models.ForeignKey(User)

    video = models.FileField(upload_to='video_entries')
    entry_type = models.CharField(max_length=100, choices=VIDEO_ENTRY_TYPE)

    title = models.CharField(max_length=150)
    slug = models.SlugField(unique=True)
    ....
    ....

Here's my views.py:

def video_entry( request, video_slug):

    video_details = Entry.objects.get(slug = video_slug)

    context = {'video_details': video_details}

    context['presentation_video']= video_details.video

    context['presentation_title'] = video_details.title
    ....
    ....

    return render(request, 'pi_app/video_page.html', context)

Here's my template.py

{% block presentation_video %}

            

            <video width="600" height="540" controls>

                <source src="{{ MEDIA_URL }}{{ presentation_video }}" type="video/mp4"> 

            </video>

            <p>Title : {{ presentation_title }}</p>

            ...

            ...

        {% endblock %}

What am I missing? I would really appreciate any help solving this issue. Thanks.

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