Django static templatetag not displaying SVG

Question

I'm trying to use django's static templatetag to display an SVG, but it doesn't seem to recognize the SVG as a valid image url. This is what I currently have:

settings.py

import mimetypes
mimetypes.add_type("images/svg+xml", ".svg", True)

landing.html

{% load staticfiles %}
<img src="{% static 'images/right-arrow.svg' %}" />

At least in my view.py, it recognizes the SVG mimetype:

views.py

print(mimetypes.guess_type(static('images/right-arrow.svg'))) 
  # returns ('images/svg+xml', None)

The SVG does display in a non-django page, and it will download the SVG if I try to open the SVG path in a new browser tab.

I'm currently using python 3.4 and django 1.8.4.

Answer 1

Add this in your settings.py file.

import mimetypes

mimetypes.add_type("image/svg+xml", ".svg", True)
mimetypes.add_type("image/svg+xml", ".svgz", True)

In your cases you have added images in add_type which should be singular (image).