In the Django admin, wherever I have a FileField, there is a \"currently\" box on the edit page, with a hyperlink to the current file. However, this link is appended to the curr
The answer to this question is fairly thoroughly covered by this answer. In brief however, the problem is that you probably haven't set up your MEDIA_ROOT and MEDIA in settings.py and in urls.py you haven't made it so that the media folder is being served.
For the details of how to do those things check out the incredibly awesome answer by Akseli Palen.