Django: How to set MEDIA_URL, MEDIA_ROOT and upload_to correctly?

Question

I’m having a hard time with my Django project. I have a template to upload the images, where I have a field to add a description for each one, and another to search all the images with this description.

Upload the images to the media folder, which is set to MEDIA_ROOT in my Settings.py

MEDIA_ROOT = (
  os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'media') #pasta media para abrigar os arquivos dos usuários
)

MEDIA_URL is also configured as follows:

MEDIA_URL = '/media/'

Image upload template: (service order is the description I’m referring to)

class Document(models.Model):
    Ordem_de_serviço = models.ForeignKey(model_os, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
    Foto = models.ImageField(upload_to='media')
    uploaded_at = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)

That’s where the problem is: when I upload_to 'media', it creates a new folder called media within the existing media folder. when I leave it blank, it uploads to the project root! And the links get broken in the visualization template in both ways, the only way I can view the images in the template is by copying into the media folder.

Remembering that I also added the following line to my.py urls:

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

And this in the Processors context, within TEMPLATES in Settings.py

'django.template.context_processors.media'

Thanks for your help.

EDIT

My Urls.py:

    from django.conf.urls import url
    from django.conf import settings
    from django.conf.urls.static import static
    from django.contrib import admin
    from django.urls import path
    from expedicao import views
    from expedicao.views import ListaOrdemServico, PesquisaView, HomePageView, SearchResultsView, CriaOrdemServico, model_form_upload, AtualizaOrdemServico
    
    urlpatterns = [
        path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
        path('', HomePageView.as_view(), name='home'),
        path('list/', ListaOrdemServico.as_view(), name='lista_ordem_servico'),
        path('new/', CriaOrdemServico.as_view(), name='ordem_servico_form'),
        path('<int:pk>/edit/', AtualizaOrdemServico.as_view(), name='ordem_servico_edit'),
        url(r'^uploads/form/$', views.model_form_upload, name='model_form_upload'),
        path('search/', PesquisaView.as_view(), name='search'),
        path('searchresults', SearchResultsView.as_view(), name='search_results'),

] +=  static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)

Answer 1

Do the following on your urls.py:

urlpatterns = [
    path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
    path('', HomePageView.as_view(), name='home'),
    path('list/', ListaOrdemServico.as_view(), name='lista_ordem_servico'),
    path('new/', CriaOrdemServico.as_view(), name='ordem_servico_form'),
    path('<int:pk>/edit/', AtualizaOrdemServico.as_view(), name='ordem_servico_edit'),
    url(r'^uploads/form/$', views.model_form_upload, name='model_form_upload'),
    path('search/', PesquisaView.as_view(), name='search'),
    path('searchresults', SearchResultsView.as_view(), name='search_results'),

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