Media files don't show on Django app in production mode on mounted device

Django
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Hi, I am new to fy.io, the background - I have a running Django app on fly.io and it appears that there is incorrect setup with media files - it seem not to work properly in production mode.

and it all comes to fly.toml file which looks like this:

app = "test"

[[statics]]
guest_path = '/code/static'
url_prefix = '/static/'

[[mounts]]
source = "media_data"
destination = "/app/media"

primary_region = 'waw'
console_command = '/code/manage.py shell'

[deploy]
release_command = 'python manage.py migrate --noinput'

[env]
  PORT = '8000'

[http_service]
  internal_port = 8000
  force_https = true
  auto_stop_machines = 'stop'
  auto_start_machines = true
  min_machines_running = 0
  processes = ['app']

[[vm]]
  memory = '1gb'
  cpu_kind = 'shared'
  cpus = 1

I deployed it successfully with settings like this and I did collect static which properly created media/uploads/ folder that contains pictures, also from admin ankle I see that pictures are being uploaded ( I even reuploaded) but no picture appearing on the site (on the volume it shows)

STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'staticfiles')  # You can change 'staticfiles' to any name

STATICFILES_DIRS = [
    os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static'),
]

# media root and url
# media root is the path that stores the media files
# media url is the URL that points to the directory the media file uploaded is stored

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

MEDIA_URL = '/media/'
MEDIA_ROOT = '/app/media'

This

‘missing an app name’

error started to appear when I erased the preceding app declaration in [brackets] - learnt that it is a table. When I try to keep both, it is impossible as I get an error about the duplication.

[app]
name = "test"

How can I overcome this? Any hint, advice greatly appreciated.

P.S. when I try to check the contents of the mounts the files appear:

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Feb 27 09:38 uploads
root@e286de6a73d178:/code# cd /app/media/
root@e286de6a73d178:/app/media# cd uploads
root@e286de6a73d178:/app/media/uploads# ls -l
total 5904
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  353970 Feb 27 09:38 OZ18_POzXkgF.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5687617 Feb 27 09:28 OZ1_qRN2etI.jpg
root@e286de6a73d178:/app/media/uploads#
2

Where are you seeing this message?

The closest error message we would produce would be:

the config for your app is missing an app name, add an app field to the fly.toml file or specify with the -a flag

This message would be produced by commands like fly deploy. You wouldn’t see it in your logs or on your server. I suspect that that message is being produced by your application.

3

Thank you for the answer, it appears

 flyctl volumes list
Error: the config for your app is missing an app name, add an app field to the fly.toml file or specify with the -a flag

I also had it on deploy, but after I modified fly.toml but after successful deployment it reappeared again and media still not showing

4

This is indeed the correct syntax. Does the message appear when this is present? Are you running flyctl volumes list from the same directory in which the fly.toml exists?

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5

Yes, it helped and I have

mount media_data

so the question still is why media not appear?