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    <p>I'd like to love Django, but this business of static and media files in development environments is driving me nuts. Please rescue me from my stupidity.</p> <p>I'm on my development machine. I have folder <code>media</code> in the root of my project directory.</p> <p>In <code>settings.py</code> I have: <code>MEDIA_ROOT = ''</code> and <code>MEDIA_URL = '/media/'</code>. </p> <p>In <code>urls.py</code> I have:</p> <pre><code>if settings.DEBUG: urlpatterns += patterns('', url(r'^media/(?P&lt;path&gt;.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve', {'document_root': settings.MEDIA_ROOT, }), ) </code></pre> <p>But the only way I can get media files is by referencing <code>/media/media/</code> e.g. <code>&lt;img src="/media/media/image.png" /&gt;</code>. </p> <p>I expect (and want)<br> <code>&lt;img src="/media/image.png" /&gt;</code></p> <p>Can anyone tell me what is happening here, and give me a simple recipe for setting up media file handling?</p> <p>Thank you very much.</p> <hr> <p>@Timmy O'Mahony - thanks! epic post, and very clear. But it leaves a couple of questions: </p> <p>(1) I have to use <code>/media/</code> and <code>/static/</code>, not <code>media/</code> and <code>static/</code> as <code>MEDIA_URL</code> and and <code>STATIC_URL</code> - am I missing something? </p> <p>(2) If <code>collectstatic</code> hoses <code>/static/</code>, where do you put site level CSS e.g. the site's CSS files? Not in <code>/static/</code>, evidently. </p> <p>(3) I put them in a directory '_' off the project root and set <code>STATICFILES_DIRS</code> to point to it - and that seems to be where the development server gets its static files, despite the <code>urlpatterns</code> directive. If THAT is wrong, where do you put site level CSS during development, and what is the workflow around <code>collectstatic</code> when you modify them - do you have to edit them one place, and collect them someplace else after every edit? </p>
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