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what is the mount path of the volume?

/media is what i've put

Dockerfile or nixpacks?

whatever was default set up

im not sure

then nixpacks

in the build logs it menions docker

please read this docs section -

I already have, but I am confused :S

tl;dr mount to /app/media

i set my django settings like this originally and the MEDIAVOLUMEPATH does refer to /app/media (I set it in the env variables in prod):

MEDIAROOT = os.getenv("MEDIAVOLUMEPATH", os.path.join(BASEDIR, "media"))

MEDIA_URL = "/media/"

go back to the code you originally showed in the root post

and update your mount path

alright

i can't seem to edit it

why not?

the original post?

dunno i click edit post and its the title

why do you need to edit your post?

ohhh sorry i misunderstood you

yes i ahve already changed it back in the code

testing it now

sorry i think i am confused

MEDIAROOT = os.getenv("MEDIAVOLUMEPATH", os.path.join(BASEDIR, "media"))

MEDIA_URL = "/media/"

change this??

change that back to the code you showed in the original post

and then update your volume's mount

okay

so this? and this:

looks fine at first glance

let's see your urls.py file as well

```from django.contrib import admin
from django.urls import path, include, repath from wagtail.admin import urls as wagtailadminurls
from wagtail import urls as wagtailurls from wagtail.documents import urls as wagtaildocsurls
from django.conf import settings
from django.conf.urls.static import static

urlpatterns = [
path("admin/", admin.site.urls),
path("", include("home.urls")),
path("", include("blogs.urls")),
path("cms/", include(wagtailadminurls)), path("documents/", include(wagtaildocsurls)),
path(r'comments/', include('djangocommentsxtd.urls')),
path("", include(wagtailurls)), ] + static(settings.MEDIAURL,
documentroot=settings.MEDIAROOT)```

please enclose that in a code block

`from django.contrib import admin
from django.urls import path, include, repath from wagtail.admin import urls as wagtailadminurls
from wagtail import urls as wagtailurls from wagtail.documents import urls as wagtaildocsurls
from django.conf import settings
from django.conf.urls.static import static

urlpatterns = [
path("admin/", admin.site.urls),
path("", include("home.urls")),
path("", include("blogs.urls")),
path("cms/", include(wagtailadminurls)), path("documents/", include(wagtaildocsurls)),
path(r'comments/', include('djangocommentsxtd.urls')),
path("", include(wagtailurls)), ] + static(settings.MEDIAURL, documentroot=settings.MEDIAROOT)`

edit the message please

code block please

my bad

looks fine to me

it is as if when i make a new post it doesn't know where to save the photo. look what happens:
this is a pic i just uploaded

similarly this is what my files look like in admin on django/wagtail

what are their status codes?

you mean when i clik? pae not found

status code please

im sorry i don't know how tofind that

can you direct me please?

sorry but that's outside of the realm of what we can help with

okay

I'm just going to assume it's 404, meaning you need to fix your urls.py file

ok

is there an example online of what the setup should look like? i think it would help me, i couldn't find one

you've asked at a very bad time, the repo I would have sent has gone missing

thats what i thought

does this provide any info?

https://web-production-2206.up.railway.app/media/images/bamiesmainphoto_toijouv.original.jpg

This is the URL that is given to the photoo when i upload it

I'm on mobile, so no

what's your current volume mount

/app/media

what's your media settings

```MEDIAROOT = os.getenv("RAILWAYVOLUMEMOUNTPATH", os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "media"))

MEDIA_URL = "/media/"```

ive been trying different iterations of it

again, use the code you originally posted

it doesn't work. it looks as though when you upload a photo it gets sent to the wrong place a folder that doesn't exist. are you sure /app/media doesn't need to be referenced?

what makes you say it's sent to the wrong location, does the volume's metrics increase?

no nothing

yes actaully

i guess it is uploaded to the right volume but the website is not trying to pick it up from there? the url of the pic when i click on it is just 'media' not app/media

also, changed it to the original code from the post and printed the MEDIA_ROOT and it gave '/media' is this right?

do you not have BASE_DIR defined?

BASE_DIR = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent

why is that not printing anything?

Can you help me with the other part of my question please? Basically, can i push my local media folder to the volume? like with scp or something?

it's complicated, it's best if you upload the media again

okay

i still haven't been able to get it to work. as far as i understnad the media_url is meant to be where i can find the files and i get "Page not found"

https://web-production-2206.up.railway.app/media/bamiesindexphoto.jpg

as mentioned, your urls.py is wrong

you need something to actually serve the media files on that url path

how can i do this? is there any more documentation on it

so this is wrong?

you said it looked fine here

I'm not a Django developer

this wouldn't be specific to railway

but usually, for example if i was using google buckets, there would be information on how to serve it

right but you are serving from disk, so it's not platform specific

okay is it true that: Railway handles this by default for you, so you usually don’t need to configure Nginx or other web servers manually. (from chat gpt)

meaning if i remove that part from urls.py railway will just sort it for me?

no that's not true at all, this has nothing to do with the platform, your application needs to serve those media files itself

is it better to not use railway volumes?

there's nothing wrong with using railway volume's, I strongly advise you not to ask AI about railway

haha okay. look i'm a little confused there seems to be so little information on how to use this. what should the url look like?

since this is not platform related, I'm unsure why you're unable to find an answer to this on sites like stack overflow

sorry i thought it was related to railway volumes. typically i would be able to find the answer in the documentation

apologies

the mount point stuff was in the docs, but this has now become purely coding questions about django

and for coding questions related to Django, railway's docs aren't going to help