images from media file wont get displayed in django template

For me, I did the following two things:

Define media url in the settings.py

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

and then in the project's urls.py, defined serving url for development and production purpose:

from django.contrib import admin
from django.urls import path, include
from django.conf import settings
from django.conf.urls.static import static
from django.contrib.staticfiles.urls import staticfiles_urlpatterns

urlpatterns = [
    path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
    path('', include('django_app.urls')),
]
# Serving the media files in development mode
if settings.DEBUG:
    urlpatterns += static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)
else:
    urlpatterns += staticfiles_urlpatterns()

then you can reference the image in the media folder in the template like this:

<img src="media/path_to_image" />

Note: Don't forget to set the DEBUG flag to False in the settings.py for production.

Oh FFS....

aperently it's

MEDIA_URL = '/media/'

NOT

MEDIA_URL = 'http://127.0.0.1:8000/media/' 

...despite #'http://127.0.0.1:8000/media/' being written right next to it

working img link looks like so:

<img src="/media/images/photo_1.JPG" />

you definitely need the:

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

in the url file also

if you are looking for display images in development environment try this:

settings.py

SITE_ROOT = os.path.realpath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(SITE_ROOT, 'static')
MEDIA_URL = '/static/'
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(SITE_ROOT, 'statics')
STATIC_URL = '/statics/'

urls.py

# somebody import this from settings
SITE_ROOT = os.path.realpath(os.path.dirname(__file__))  
urlpatterns += patterns('', 
    url(r'^static/(?P<path>.*)$','django.views.static.serve',
        {'document_root': os.path.join(SITE_ROOT, 'static')})
)

html view file *.html:

<img src="{{ MEDIA_URL }}img/content_top_edit_form.png">

this means we have a img folder in static folder. in your case you can change this by

if you see your browser html must be seen like this:

<img src="/static/img/content_top_edit_form.png">