By default, Django settings include a BASE_DIR value, which is an absolute path to the directory containing manage.py (usually one level higher than the settings.py file). Then, we set all of the paths relative to BASE_DIR using the os.path.join function.

Based on the directory layout we set down in the Creating a virtual environment project file structure recipe, we would insert 'myproject' as an intermediary path segment for each of the previous examples, since the associated folders were created within that one. For Docker projects, as shown in the Creating a Docker project file structure recipe, we set the volumes for media, static, and so forth to be alongside manage.py in BASE_DIR itself.