Sever media files uploaded by a user during development

During development, we can serve user uploaded media files from MEDIA_ROOT using the django.views.static.server() view.

This is not suitable for production use.

We have to configure where to store the uploaded files, in the settings.py file, add the following at the bottom of the file:

MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR,'media')
MEDIA_URL = '/media/'

Then add the url pattern to our ROOT_URLCONF file:

from django.conf import settings
from django.conf.urls.static import static

# ...
urlpatterns += static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)