I am running Django on a local Vagrant arch machine on a Win7 host. I set up my environment variables from Django in a .env file. In my app all static files are served correctly and everything works as it should.
Problem: I am not able to serve my static files (images) in my html-email templates. Until now i served them as hardcoded filer URL's and i want to change that.
I am passing BASE_URL BASE_URL=http://127.0.0.1:8001, which is proved working, as context to the template and loading static as usual:
{% load static %}
and calling it in HTML tag:
<img src="{{BASE_URL}}{% static 'img/my_image.png' %}">
In the received email the URL of the image is http://127.0.0.1:8001/static/img/my_image.png which looks right but triggers a 404.
What am i missing??
(Please dont ask me if the image is in the corresponding folder, it is ;)
As already said by @dentemm: Your email service provider try to fetch images from http://127.0.0.1:8001/static/img/my_image.png but he cannot while address of your server is visible only from your local computer. Therefore images are not found. One way to solve this is to render template and take screenshot of template and send that in email body(to see if it renders properly) E.g. here.
Another way is to upload img files to some publicly accessible server.
