Re: How-to for static files?

Great. Glad te be of help.

and yes, the missing RequestContext was what was missing. And insteas of trying months for yourself just drop a few lines here on that list in the furure ;-)

happy coding!

On Nov 23, 2011, at 15:13 , Guillaume Chorn wrote:

IT WORKED!!!  Holy cow.  So my main issue was just not using RequestContext, right?  Either way, thank you SO much.  I have been stuck at this point for months!  I can now TRULY begin working on my website.  Wow.  Thank you. So. Much.

best,
Guillaume

On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 9:53 PM, Ivo Brodien <ib@brodien.de> wrote:

ok, i think we got it.

def items(request):     item_list=Item.objects.all()     return render(request, 'myapp/items.html', {'items_list':items_list},         content_type="text/css")

you are returning html and text/css. Your HTML includes a CSS but that is a different story. The Browser will ask for the included CSS file in a different request to the server and the server responds with a static file from disk without going through any of your views.

so just remove content_type

or put it to text/html which is the default.

Your browser thinks it is a CSS file instead of HTML.

cheers

Ivo

On Nov 23, 2011, at 14:40 , Guillaume Chorn wrote:

Oops, I guess maybe you meant since I've changed the views.py file since I last included it?  Here is the newest version:

http://dpaste.com/660808/

thanks,
Guillaume

On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 9:36 PM, Guillaume Chorn <guillaumechorn@gmail.com> wrote:

Sorry, I thought I included my views.py earlier, but here it is:

http://dpaste.com/660653/

It is the

(r'^items/$','myapp.views.items')

which is not working.  It shows the expected HTML source--basically, exactly what I have in the template file, except {{ STATIC_URL }} has been changed to '/static' and all of the template tags have been replaced by actual values.  So yes, I think that it's just not rendered.  What could cause this?

thanks,
Guillaume

On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 8:23 PM, Ivo Brodien <ib@brodien.de> wrote:

show your myapp.views.py file and is it the 

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

which is not working?

Is it showing the html source that you expect just not rendered or something else?

It is always a good idea to provide as much details as possible.

But yeah, we are getting close.

cheers

Ivo

Gah!  Removed it, but now when I load up the page, it just shows me HTML source code.  The rest of the views work fine. 

Sorry for all this trouble.  But at least something is happening with each change you suggest!  I now have more hope than I've had in quite a while.  I think we're getting close! =)

thanks,
Guillaume

On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 8:08 PM, Ivo Brodien <ib@brodien.de> wrote:

you did not read the post by Tom Evans, did you? ;)

remove "django.core.context_processors.tz",

or just put:

("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.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages")

It was a mistake by me. I posted the one from the dev version.

does it work now?

On Nov 23, 2011, at 13:02 , Guillaume Chorn wrote:

Hi,

Thanks for continuing to follow up on this.  Something is definitely happening now.  I went ahead and put this into my views.py:

from django.shortcuts import render

def items(request):
    item_list=Item.objects.all()
    return render(request, 'myapp/items.html', {'item_list':item_list},
        content_type="text/css")

And now when I try to load the page, I get the following error:

ImproperlyConfigured at /diseases/

Module "django.core.context_processors" does not define a "tz" callable request processor

Request Method:     GET
Request URL:     http://127.0.0.1:8000/diseases/
Django Version:     1.3.1
Exception Type:     ImproperlyConfigured
Exception Value:    

Module "django.core.context_processors" does not define a "tz" callable request processor

Exception Location:     /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/template/context.py in get_standard_processors, line 154
Python Executable:     /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Resources/Python.app/Contents/MacOS/Python
Python Version:     2.7.2
Python Path:    

['/Users/guillaumechorn/Documents/pharmapipe',
 '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python27.zip',
 '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7',
 '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-darwin',
 '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-mac',
 '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-mac/lib-scriptpackages',
 '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-tk',
 '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-old',
 '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload',
 '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages']

Did something happen to my context.py file?  Here it is:
    
http://dpaste.com/660778/

Also, as you can see from the error message above, I am currently using Django 1.3.1.
 
thanks,
Guillaume

On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 7:10 PM, Ivo Brodien <ib@brodien.de> wrote:

Hi,

STATIC_URL is not working in your template because the template does not get the RequestContext, which has all the variables in it.

use the render shortcut [1] instead of render_to_reponse

BTW: It seems you are using the development version. You should change to 1.3.1

Does this help?

[1]  https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/topics/http/shortcuts/#render

On Nov 23, 2011, at 7:33 , Guillaume Chorn wrote:

Hi,

The location of my CSS file is /Users/guillaumechorn/Documents/project/myapp/static/stylesheet.css.  Sorry, I may have missed you asking for this earlier.

Here is my views.py:

http://dpaste.com/660653/

When I hardcode the disk location of the CSS file in the template (like so: <link rel="stylesheet" href="/Users/guillaumechorn/Documents/project/myapp/static/stylesheet.css" type="text/css" />), the CSS shows up if I open the template file directly using a browser.  But it still doesn't show up when loading up the page on the development server.

thanks,
Guillaume

On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Ivo Brodien <ib@brodien.de> wrote:

Hi,

looks fine.

yes, show your views.py 

and you can also hardcode the STATIC_URL in the template to see if the path: src="/static/stylesheet.css" works.

or simply open http://127.0.0.1:8000/static/stylesheet.css in your browser.

Again: Where is that CSS file on your disk?

On Nov 23, 2011, at 2:46 , Guillaume Chorn wrote:

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.