Django not recognizing the MEDIA_URL path?

Question

So I\'m trying to get TinyMCE up and running on a simple view function, but the path to the tiny_mce.js file gets screwed up. The file is located at /Users/home/Django/tinyMCE/m

Answer 1

I was also having the same problem, this is how I got it done.

If you are using a FileField in your model class instead of MEDIA_URL use .url member to access the url of your file. For eg: something like this

href = "{{ some_object.file_name.url }}" 

here file_name is the FileField in model class.

Answer 2

You can either pass it to the template manually as others have suggested or ensure that you are using a RequestContext instead of plain Context. RequestContext will automatically populate the context with certain variables including MEDIA_URL and other media-related ones.

Example from docs:

def some_view(request):
    # ...
    return render_to_response('my_template.html',
                              my_data_dictionary,
                              context_instance=RequestContext(request))