Is it possible to use django to load a file from a system directory?

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Basically, let's say I have an image in /home/arnav/Documents/covers. My django project directory is /home/arnav/project. Is it possible for django to somehow access image files in covers and use them as part of a template? Or do images need to be stored within the project to be accessed? Thanks.

You can make your web server and filesystem do anything you like. — Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
– Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams, Commented Aug 31, 2014 at 0:47

Andrew Johnson · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-31 00:51:57Z

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In your settings file define STATICFILES_DIRS to also include the /home/arnav/Documents/covers path:

STATICFILES_DIRS = (
     '/home/arnav/project/static',
     '/home/arnav/Documents/covers',
)

This will tell django to first look in the project static directory, but also look in covers for static files.

answered Aug 31, 2014 at 0:51

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