Media Files Not Showing On Debug False

I've just deployed a site with pythonanywhere, when I set to DEBUG mode to False, my media images dissapear, the path of my media folder is not found. I was asking myself what caus

Solution 1:

Found it, with pythonanywhere I had to setup media on the static files handler like this :

path :/media/

directory :/home/<myusername>/<myproject>/media

Then reload the domain name after setting DEBUG to False.

Solution 2:

The behaviour you are seeing is by design, Django doesn't serve static files in production mode. Serving many, potentially huge static files using Python will put a lot of stress on the server, while any of the common servers will handle that with ease.

Hence you need to serve them using Apache or nginx yourself: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/howto/static-files/deployment/