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Jillian S. Estrella (she/her)
15,720 PointsWhitenoise breaks ImageField references
Following along with Kenneth's "Deploying Django: PythonAnywhere" course, all goes well except that when using Whitenoise to serve static assets it breaks ImageField references. This I assume is because the database still points to my original media/images directory (where images are uploaded to by the Django Admin) and does not update to use the new staticfiles directory that Whitenoise sets up.
The question is how does one (properly) update the database to point to the new staticfiles directory?
Jillian S. Estrella (she/her)
15,720 Pointsmy question is answered here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31073322/serving-media-files-during-deployment-in-django-1-8
"'Media' files in Django are for runtime uploaded files. They will generally be stored with a corresponding db entry such as models.ImageField(upload_to='/photos') but that isn't necessarily so.
Your media setup is wrong, as you shouldn't be writing to a directory on the server anyway (this is what you are telling Django to do with MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "media").
Most commonly you would instead use an S3 bucket for media."
And how to serve static and media assets from an S3 bucket is shown here:
Jillian S. Estrella (she/her)
15,720 PointsJillian S. Estrella (she/her)
15,720 PointsAlso it seems that python manage.py collectstatic --settings=my_project.deploy_settings didn't copy ALL the image assets over, it only copied maybe half of them for some reason.