Django download a file

You can add "download" attribute inside your tag to download files.

<a  href="/project/download" download> Download Document </a>

https://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_a_download.asp

You missed underscore in argument document_root. But it's bad idea to use serve in production. Use something like this instead:

import os
from django.conf import settings
from django.http import HttpResponse, Http404

def download(request, path):
    file_path = os.path.join(settings.MEDIA_ROOT, path)
    if os.path.exists(file_path):
        with open(file_path, 'rb') as fh:
            response = HttpResponse(fh.read(), content_type="application/vnd.ms-excel")
            response['Content-Disposition'] = 'inline; filename=' + os.path.basename(file_path)
            return response
    raise Http404

Reference:

In view.py Implement function like,

def download(request, id):
    obj = your_model_name.objects.get(id=id)
    filename = obj.model_attribute_name.path
    response = FileResponse(open(filename, 'rb'))
    return response