A step by step guide to setting up media files in django

<p>In settings.py:</p>
<pre class="language-python"><code># Base url to serve media files
MEDIA_URL = '/media/'

# Path where media is stored
MEDIA_ROOT = BASE_DIR / 'media/'</code></pre>

Media url and root

<p>in project/urls.py:</p>
<pre class="language-python"><code>
from django.contrib import admin
from django.urls import path, include
from django.conf import settings
from django.conf.urls.static import static

urlpatterns = [
    path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
    ...
]
if settings.DEBUG:
    urlpatterns += static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)</code></pre>

urls.py config

<pre class="language-markup"><code>pip install pillow</code></pre>

Install Pillow

<pre class="language-python"><code>file = models.FileField(upload_to='files/')</code></pre>

Set Up Django Media Files

Media url and root

Media url and root

urls.py config

Install Pillow

Add filefield