When utilizing the localhost for a Django project, the form submission with an attached image correctly directs the image to the specified path (e.g., media/images). However, upon deploying the website and submitting a form, only the text is displayed, and the image cannot be found at the designated path.
THE ERROR
media\qrs\qr_ZQRQLNXGPA6ILUKVK9XE.png” does not exist
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Django settings for TransitSynch project.
Generated by ‘django-admin startproject’ using Django 4.2.5.
from pathlib import Path
import os
BASE_DIR = Path(file).resolve().parent.parent
SECRET_KEY = ‘mykey’
DEBUG = True
ALLOWED_HOSTS = [‘*’]
INSTALLED_APPS = [
“captcha”,
‘django.contrib.admin’,
‘django.contrib.auth’,
‘django.contrib.contenttypes’,
‘django.contrib.sessions’,
‘django.contrib.messages’,
‘django.contrib.staticfiles’,
‘Website’,
‘users’,
‘crispy_forms’,
‘crispy_bootstrap4’,
‘phonenumber_field’,
]
AUTH_USER_MODEL= ‘users.CustomUser’
MIDDLEWARE = [
‘django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware’,
‘django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware’,
‘django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware’,
‘django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware’,
‘django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware’,
‘django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware’,
‘django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware’,
]
ROOT_URLCONF = ‘TransitSynch.urls’
TEMPLATES = [
{
‘BACKEND’: ‘django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates’,
‘DIRS’: ,
‘APP_DIRS’: True,
‘OPTIONS’: {
‘context_processors’: [
‘django.template.context_processors.debug’,
‘django.template.context_processors.request’,
‘django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth’,
‘django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages’,
],
},
},
]
WSGI_APPLICATION = ‘TransitSynch.wsgi.application’
import dj_database_url
DATABASES = {
‘default’: dj_database_url.parse(‘postgres://mydatabase’)
}
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS = [
{
‘NAME’: ‘django.contrib.auth.password_validation.UserAttributeSimilarityValidator’,
},
{
‘NAME’: ‘django.contrib.auth.password_validation.MinimumLengthValidator’,
},
{
‘NAME’: ‘django.contrib.auth.password_validation.CommonPasswordValidator’,
},
{
‘NAME’: ‘django.contrib.auth.password_validation.NumericPasswordValidator’,
},
]
LANGUAGE_CODE = ‘en-us’
TIME_ZONE = ‘Asia/Manila’
USE_I18N = True
USE_TZ = True
STATIC_URL = ‘/static/’
if not DEBUG:
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'staticfiles')
STATICFILES_STORAGE = 'whitenoise.storage.CompressedManifestStaticFilesStorage'
CRISPY_ALLOWED_TEMPLATE_PACKS = “bootstrap4”
CRISPY_TEMPLATE_PACK = “bootstrap4”
LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL = ‘/’
AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = [‘users.backends.EmailBackend’]
DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD = ‘django.db.models.BigAutoField’
MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, ‘media’)
MEDIA_URL = ‘/media/’
EMAIL_BACKEND = ‘django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend’
EMAIL_HOST = ‘’
EMAIL_FROM = ‘’
EMAIL_HOST_USER = ‘’
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = ‘’
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
MEDIA_URL = ‘/media/’