Re: How-to for static files?

Sorry, I think I made something confusing.  In my original file, I only pasted the URL pattern for the site homepage.  However, this is not the page I'm trying to style (or link to the CSS file).  The page I'm trying to link to the CSS file is a separate one, which I have previously referred to as http://127.0.0.1:8000/view/, but which I will hereafter refer to as http://127.0.0.1:8000/items/ (and will now include below).  I previously used the term "view" to imply a general myapp.views.view, but will hereafter refer to it as myapp.views.items.  Hope that makes sense.  I've used dpaste to share my code as suggested.

Here is my settings.py file:

http://dpaste.com/660563/

Here is the template which I want to style:

http://dpaste.com/660565/

And here is my urls.py file:

http://dpaste.com/660568/

Let me know if anything else is needed, such as the views.py file or something.

thanks,
Guillaume

On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Ivo Brodien <ib@brodien.de> wrote:

In your original post you had the url like this:

(r'^home/$','myapp.views.homepage'),

than your the url starts with view instead of home so there might be something wrong.

just paste these files into somthing like dpaste.com

- settings.py

- myapp.views.homepage

- urls.py

cheers

On Nov 23, 2011, at 0:29 , Guillaume Chorn wrote:

Thank you Ivo.  Your suggestion makes a lot of sense so I tried it out.  Unfortunately, after adding TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS and its associated tuple into the settings.py file, I tried to restart the development server to see if it worked and it didn't.  I checked the page source again and it's still looking for /view/stylesheet.css.  Am I missing something else?

thanks,
Guillaume

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 10:42 PM, Ivo Brodien <ib@brodien.de> wrote:

 Finally, I have another question.  In my settings.py file, there is actually no section for TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS.  I have noticed in the documentation

yes.

put this in there:

 ("django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth", "django.core.context_processors.debug", "django.core.context_processors.i18n", "django.core.context_processors.media", "django.core.context_processors.static", "django.core.context_processors.tz", "django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages")

and try again.

What happens in your template is that {{ STATIC_URL }} is empty because the context processor ""django.core.context_processors.static"" did not put the STATIC_URL into the context. so your path to the file becomes: /view/stylesheet.css instead of /static/stylesheet.css

You have to put the CSS file in a directory called static as mentioned before.

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