Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of CookBookUsingExternalMedia

Timestamp:

Dec 13, 2006, 6:45:31 PM (18 years ago)

Author:

heckj@…

Comment:

How to set up external static media with MEDIA_URL

CookBookUsingExternalMedia

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+To take advantage of the MEDIA_URL in the settings.py file for hosting your static media on a separate server, you need to do a
+little internal work on your templates and some work to make that setting available to the templates.
+
+Inside a template, where you would normally have:
+
+{{{
+blah blah <img src="/img/foo.jpg" alt="this is a foo"> blah blah..
+}}}
+
+You would instead insert {{media_url}} so that it would look like:
+
+{{{
+blah blah <img src="{{media_url}}/img/foo.jpg" alt="this is a foo"> blah blah..
+}}}
+
+It generally requires a big search and replace the first time you implement it. After that, seeing other
+references in the templates has been enough to remind me to use {{media_url}} before any static content.
+
+We could pass {{media_url}} in through each view, but since we'll want it throughout the site, it's often easier to
+set up a simple context processor to do the heavy lifting.
+
+Here's a example snippet from a context process:
+
+{{{
+from myproject import constants
+from django.conf import settings
+
+def common(request):
+    ctx = {}
+    ctx['constants'] = constants
+    ctx['media_url'] = settings.MEDIA_URL
+    ... more stuff here ...
+    return ctx
+}}}
+
+Then in the settings.py under TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS, we added:
+   "myproject.context_processors.common",
+
+and from there, the MEDIA_URL in settings.py became available in all templates as {{media_url}}.