id summary reporter owner description type status component version severity resolution keywords cc stage has_patch needs_docs needs_tests needs_better_patch easy ui_ux 10650 Clarify use of MEDIA_ROOT in default settings.py Tom von Schwerdtner jjconti "I had a bit of a palm-to-face moment when I realized that MEDIA_ROOT was *not* a place to stick media files to be served up by the development server. Maybe the bizarre way in which my brain functions made me the one and only person that would make this mistake (seriously, it's possible), but I figure this coudl also be a point of confusion for people new to Django, so I propose a small adjustment to the generated settings.py: From: {{{ # Absolute path to the directory that holds media. # Example: ""/home/media/media.lawrence.com/"" MEDIA_ROOT = '' }}} To: {{{ # Absolute path to the directory that will hold uploaded media. # Example: ""/home/media/media.lawrence.com/"" MEDIA_ROOT = '' }}} " closed Documentation 1.0 fixed pycamp2010 Accepted 0 0 0 0 0 0