Django wont upload images to media directory

Question

Today I tried to have images in my project and the idea is simple - create news with an image, title, and description. I wonder why when I set up my media files So I make my news in this view:

class NewsCreate(views.CreateView):
template_name = 'web/create_news.html'
model = News
fields = ('title', 'image', 'description')
success_url = reverse_lazy('home')

Here is the model:

class News(models.Model):
TITLE_MAX_LENGTH = 30
title = models.CharField(
    max_length=TITLE_MAX_LENGTH
)
image = models.ImageField(
    upload_to='news/',
    blank=True
)
description = models.TextField()

Here is the set-up in settings.py:

MEDIA_ROOT = BASE_DIR / 'mediafiles'
MEDIA_URL = '/media/'

Here is the urls.py file:

from django.contrib import admin
from django.urls import path, include

urlpatterns = [
   path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
   path('', include('University_Faculty.web.urls')),
]
if settings.DEBUG:
   urlpatterns += static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)

I've noticed that when I try to go to none existing URL this happens : wrong ulr page showing media as a correct one

This is the result in my media folder after 10+ POST requests it shows in the database that it is actually creating the news, but the images won't go anywhere: no files media folder

Write FileField in place of ImageField, and it's recommended to make the folder media instead of mediafiles. — Sunderam Dubey
– Sunderam Dubey, Commented Mar 25, 2022 at 18:06
potential duplicate or similar here: stackoverflow.com/questions/32423123/… — AMG
– AMG, Commented Mar 25, 2022 at 18:13
Problem found I haven't put enctype="multipart/form-data" in form tag I should've put the template in the question aswell — Jordan Petrov
– Jordan Petrov, Commented Mar 25, 2022 at 21:26

Mahdi Ferdosi · Accepted Answer · 2022-03-25 18:18:21Z

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add this to settings.py

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

answered Mar 25, 2022 at 18:18

Mahdi Ferdosi

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Sunderam Dubey Over a year ago

That is basically(BASE_DIR)already maintained above in settings.py,by importing os and resolving parent.parent, consequently doing the same.

DragonFire Over a year ago

see here could be a permission issue if code is correct : stackoverflow.com/a/73045506/3904109

Yogesh dwivedi Geitpl · Accepted Answer · 2022-03-25 18:12:24Z

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You need to correct

MEDIA_ROOT = BASE_DIR / 'media'

Hope this will work for you.

answered Mar 25, 2022 at 18:12

Yogesh dwivedi Geitpl

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