Is it possible to serve media files by Django on Production with static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)

Question

I want to use non-static images for my app. Meaning that Admin will be able to upload images (and create articles). Users will have read-only access to articles.

Would in this case it be possible to use function static() on Production to store and serve images?

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

Or still I should use only 3rd party resource for storing/serving the images?

Answer 1

The answer happened to be very simple:

the function

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

simply won't work with "Debug = false".

That's why it can not be used on Production. Here is a quote from documentation :

This helper function works only in debug mode and only if the given prefix is local (eg /media/) and not a URL (eg http://media.example.com/ ).