Re: Can't set static file directory.

Hi,

   I am not to interrupt your question, actually I have the same problems as you. It seems that Django comers suffer this problem so much.

   I use Manager Static File as a guide, but still has problem.
   1, Put your static files somewhere that staticfiles will find them

      I set following in the setting.py

      STATIC_URL = '/static/'

     # Additional locations of static files
    STATICFILES_DIRS = (
       # Put strings here, like "/home/html/static" or "C:/www/django/static".
       # Always use forward slashes, even on Windows.
       # Don't forget to use absolute paths, not relative paths.

       "E:/code/python/djangoBook/django-testapp-develop/static"  #this is only used in my local test
      )
   2, Make sure that django.contrib.staticfiles is included in your INSTALLED_APPS.

      So I set that: 
       INSTALLED_APPS = (
#    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',   #this
    'djangotoolbox',
    'autoload',
    'dbindexer',
    'shape_practice',

    # djangoappengine should come last, so it can override a few manage.py commands
    'djangoappengine',
   
)
       TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = (
         'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
       'django.core.context_processors.request',
       'django.core.context_processors.media',
        'django.core.context_processors.static',  #this
     )
  3, You'll probably need to refer to these files in your templates.

   So I did this:

  <img src="{{ STATIC_URL }}images/gauge_example.jpg" alt = "aa gauge example" width = "390" height = "225" />
  

  And, so someone pointed out that : using RequestContext, so I dit that
  def introduction(request):
    t = loader.get_template('introduction.html')   
    c = RequestContext(request, {})   #this
    return HttpResponse(t.render(c))   

  The problem is that when I comment out "E:/code/python/djangoBook/django-testapp-develop/static" in the STATICFILES_DIRS , it has an error :

"NetworkError: 500  - http://127.0.0.1:8000/static/images/gauge_example.jpg". When I didn't commented out, it works. So I think STATICFILES_DIRS and STATIC_URL actually works in 
  

my app, the problem is that how to set it to the correct path. In my case, I want to STATIC_URL can find my "static" folder which is in the project home directory.

  I was puzzled by this problem many days, right now I have no way but to use local folder "E:/code/python/djangoBook/django-testapp-develop/static" to code and test in my PC.
  

  Thanks.

Jianhui

 

     

On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Mārtiņš Jakubovičs <martins.jakubovics@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello.

I try a lot of things and can't understand, why not working STATIC_ROOT and MEDIA_ROOT in settings.py.

I want, that all my media and static folders is in different place that python files, so I set media, static and templates to different place. Templates TEMPLATE_DIRS works well, bet MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT not.

I try setup like this:

/home/domain/www/my_proj/ there is project folder and all apps, and there I place my htdocs folder, in which is static, templates and media folders.

When i set in STATIC_ROOT = '/home/domain/www/my_proj/htdocs/static'

In apache error log i got:

File does not exist: /home/domain/www/my_proj/my_proj/static

I don't get, why django don't want to take new setting...

I use django 1.4.

Thanks.

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