Re: Can't find image files

Hi,

I keep my images files within in a static folder, so

./MyProject/static/media/myimage.png

would be my path. In the template I make use of it like that:

<img src="{% static 'media/myimage.png' %} alt="my image">

It's explained here:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/howto/static-files/

also that you need to define your static folder in your settings file:
STATIC_URL = '/static/'

and that you might need to run collectstatic first, if your DEBUG variable is set to false in your settings file.

Kind regards,
Antje

On 1/27/20 7:52 PM, Dick Arnold wrote:

My nice, new Django application is going along fairly well,  although I have run into a couple of roadblocks and need some help. The first problem is my HTML <img statement cannot find a jpg file.  Here's the HTML statement:

<img src=GAW.jpg alt="GAW.jpg">

Here's the error message I get on my terminal (command prompt) window:

Not Found: /GAW.jpg
[25/Jan/2020 11:51:50] "GET /GAW.jpg HTTP/1.1" 404 3481

I read every thing I could find and most of them tell me that it is in a location relative to the "current folder", but I can find nothing that explains what is meant  by "current".  I thought it might be where my terminal prompt comes from.   It's in the highest level project folder. Tried that and still no luck.

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