Re: Question about not hardcoding paths in settings.py

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 1:17 PM, frocco <farocco@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,

I have a site under apache www root.

www

   mysite

        templates

   media

   static

I am following the two-scoops book.

The problem is that my app is looking for templates at www/templates

Here is my settings.

Thanks

from unipath import Path

PROJECT_ROOT = Path(__file__).ancestor(3)

MEDIA_ROOT = PROJECT_ROOT.child('media')

MEDIA_URL = 'http://127.0.0.1:8000/media/'

STATIC_ROOT = PROJECT_ROOT.child('static') 

STATIC_URL = '/static/'

STATICFILES_DIRS = (

PROJECT_ROOT.child('static'),

)

TEMPLATE_DIRS = (

PROJECT_ROOT.child('templates'),

)

I don't know about unipath.  It might work just fine.  I typically use os.path stuff like abspath, dirname, split, and join, or functions I define myself for the purpose based on the previous operations.  You can certainly see whether they are producing what you expect using "manage.py shell", then "from django.conf import settings as s", and "repr(s.TEMPLATE_DIRS)".

I will, however, point out that you seem to be confused about static files (we're talking Django 1.4, yes?).  STATIC_ROOT is the directory that will be served at STATIC_URL and is also the directory into which the collectstatic operation of manage.py will write files or links.  You should never put anything there yourself.  STATICFILES_DIRS are additional places, beyond the "static" sub-directories of your installed apps, *FROM* which collectstatic will get the files that it copies or links into STATIC_ROOT.  STATIC_ROOT should never be included in STATICFILES_DIRS.

STATICFILES_DIRS are places where you have put, for example, you site wide css, non-app related JavaScript, static images like backgrounds and buttons.
STATIC_ROOT is something you arrange for your front end (e.g.; Apache) to serve, but you never put anything in it except by running manage.py's collectstatic.

Bill

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