[DEPLOYMENT] Images not loading unless Debug=True

[Ryan24b]

Explain your issue

I've been troubleshooting why the Flags on the World Travel page would not load and show as "No image available"
During this, I found that changing Debug=True allows the Images to load, but as soon as it's back to False, they don't work.

This is the same for any images I upload. They will upload without a problem but only display when the server is Debug=True.

Visiting https://adventurelogapi.mydomain.com/media/flags/af.png results in a 404 Not found from nginx

I have Aventurelog exposed through a Cloudflare Tunnel
Front: adventurelog.mydomain.com
Back: adventurelogapi.mydomain.com

Provide an obfuscated docker-compose.yml

services:
web:
#build: ./frontend/
image: ghcr.io/seanmorley15/adventurelog-frontend:latest
container_name: adventurelog-frontend
restart: unless-stopped
environment:
- PUBLIC_SERVER_URL=http://server:8000 # Should be the service name of the backend with port 8000, even if you change the port in the backend service
- ORIGIN=https://adventurelog.mydomain.com
- BODY_SIZE_LIMIT=Infinity
ports:
- 8015:3000
depends_on:
- server

db:
image: postgis/postgis:15-3.3
container_name: adventurelog-db
restart: unless-stopped
environment:
POSTGRES_DB: adventurelog
POSTGRES_USER: user
POSTGRES_PASSWORD: pass
volumes:
- /mnt/nvme/apps/docker/adventurelog/db:/var/lib/postgresql/data/

server:
#build: ./backend/
image: ghcr.io/seanmorley15/adventurelog-backend:latest
container_name: adventurelog-backend
restart: unless-stopped
environment:
- DISABLE_REGISTRATION=true
- PGHOST=db
- PGDATABASE=adventurelog
- PGUSER=user
- PGPASSWORD=pass
- SECRET_KEY=secret
- DJANGO_ADMIN_USERNAME=user
- DJANGO_ADMIN_PASSWORD=pass
- DJANGO_ADMIN_EMAIL=[email protected]
- PUBLIC_URL= https://adventurelogapi.mydomain.com # Match the outward port, used for the creation of image urls
- CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS=http://localhost:8015,http://localhost:8016,https://adventurelog.mydomain.com,https://adventurelogapi.mydomain.com # Comma separated list of trusted origins for CSRF
- DEBUG=False
- FRONTEND_URL=https://adventurelog.mydomain.com # Used for email generation. This should be the url of the frontend
ports:
- 8016:80
depends_on:
- db
volumes:
- /mnt/nvme/apps/docker/adventurelog/media:/code/media/

Provide any necessary logs from the containers and browser

The logs don't show any issues but will paste them anyway.

Backend:

Starting nginx: nginx.
PostgreSQL is up - continuing...
Operations to perform:
Apply all migrations: account, admin, adventures, auth, authtoken, contenttypes, integrations, mfa, sessions, sites, socialaccount, users, worldtravel
Running migrations:
No migrations to apply.
Creating superuser...
Superuser already exists.
Latest country, region, and state data already downloaded.

DB:

PostgreSQL Database directory appears to contain a database; Skipping initialization
2025-03-23 06:22:37.115 UTC [1] LOG: starting PostgreSQL 15.4 (Debian 15.4-1.pgdg110+1) on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (Debian 10.2.1-6) 10.2.1 20210110, 64-bit
2025-03-23 06:22:37.115 UTC [1] LOG: listening on IPv4 address "0.0.0.0", port 5432
2025-03-23 06:22:37.115 UTC [1] LOG: listening on IPv6 address "::", port 5432
2025-03-23 06:22:37.123 UTC [1] LOG: listening on Unix socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432"
2025-03-23 06:22:37.130 UTC [29] LOG: database system was shut down at 2025-03-23 06:22:06 UTC
2025-03-23 06:22:37.136 UTC [1] LOG: database system is ready to accept connections

Frontend:

The origin to be set is: https://adventurelog.mydomain.com

Listening on 0.0.0.0:3000

[filcuk]

I believe this is still true in the latest release. I receive 500 on images otherwise whilst everything else works.

[ivanvmoreno]

I can replicate this. Version v0.9.0, no images load on the browser unless running the backend container with the environment variable DEBUG=True.

[Ryan24b]

I didn't realise I had accidentally closed this. I've opened it again after confirming that the problem still exists.

I tried v0.8.0, and the problem existed there, too.