Re: svn django and staticfiles app : python manage.py findstatic logo.png and devserver does not find file

This may be related to the problem I am facing. The docs mention a
special command to start the devserver to serve static files.

django-admin.py staticfiles-runserver

"
i$ /Users/harijay/djtrunk/django/bin/django-admin.py staticfiles-runserver
Unknown command: 'staticfiles-runserver'
Type 'django-admin.py help' for usage.

"

I am still starting my devserver with

python manage.py runserver

Hari

Hari

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 4:55 PM, hari jayaram <harijay@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks for your reply Janice..I am hopefully edging towards understading the docs
> I added the directory to the STATICFILES_DIRS. But the devserver still gives a 404 on the files which are only in the "/Users/harijay/learn_css"  directory
>
> Also
> "python manage.py findstatic logo.png " for example does not find that file
>
> The docs as I understand it implies that in the newest development version, no special directive in urls.py is required to serve up the static files.  What should STATIC_ROOT and STATIC_URL under those circumstances so that  staticfiles app gets the files "/Users/harijay/learn_css"
> Hari
>
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> On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Jannis Leidel <leidel@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 30.01.2011, at 20:58, hari jayaram wrote:
>>
>> > Hi I am a little confused about using the staticfiles app.  I am running the devserver since I am learning django and building a site.
>> >
>> > I have my logo and css files at
>> >
>> > /Users/harijay/learn_css/logo.png
>> > /Users/harijay/learn_css/my_master.css
>> >
>> >
>> > STATIC_ROOT="/Users/harijay/learn_css/"
>> > STATIC_URL="/static/"
>>
>> Quoting the docs:
>>
>> "This is not a place to store your static files permanently; you should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles's finders, which by default, are 'static' app sub directories and any directories you include in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting)." -- http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/settings/#static-root
>>
>> Simply put, STATIC_ROOT is only needed if you want to use the collectstatic management command during deployment. It collects static files from various locations in STATIC_ROOT so you can make that single directory accessible with your web server.
>>
>> We further describe this here: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/static-files/
>>
>> The solution for you should be to add a setting:
>>
>> STATICFILES_DIRS = (
>>    "/Users/harijay/learn_css/",
>> )
>>
>> Jannis
>>
>>
>> > My Django project directory is
>> >
>> > /Users/harijay/learn_django
>> >
>> > I am not using anything extra in my urls.py (attached below). in my template I am composing my static links as follows
>> > t = Template (""".....
>> > @import url("{{STATIC_URL}}my_master.css");
>> > <img src="{{STATIC_URL}}logo.png"/>
>> > """)
>> >
>> > And returning the response as follows
>> > c = RequestContext(request)
>> > return (HttpResponse(t.render(c)))
>> >
>> > My problem is that the logo.png and my_master.css only get served if they are put in the project directory i.e /Users/harijay/learn_django
>> > They are showed at the URL http://localhost:8000/static/logo.png
>> >
>> >
>> > I am trying to understand what I am doing wrong. I had gotten suggestions on the irc channel to use django_appmedia  but I want to go with staticfiles app since it is better documented.
>> >
>> > Any Help will be greatly appreciated
>> >
>> > Hari
>> >
>> >
>> > ###########
>> > urls.py
>> > ###########
>> >
>> > from django.conf.urls.defaults import *
>> > from bscencoder.views import hello
>> > from bscencoder.views import upload_to_s3_form
>> > from bscencoder.views import mymain
>> > import settings
>> > #from django.contrib.staticfiles.urls import staticfiles_urlpatterns
>> >
>> >
>> > # Uncomment the next two lines to enable the admin:
>> > # from django.contrib import admin
>> > # admin.autodiscover()
>> > # Old method of serving static files with devserv
>> > #(r'^(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve',{'document_root': '/Users/harijay/learn_css'}),
>> >
>> > urlpatterns = patterns('',
>> >     # Example:
>> >     # (r'^bscencoder/', include('bscencoder.foo.urls')),
>> >
>> >     # Uncomment the admin/doc line below to enable admin documentation:
>> >     # (r'^admin/doc/', include('django.contrib.admindocs.urls')),
>> >
>> >     # Uncomment the next line to enable the admin:
>> >     # (r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
>> >     (r'^/?$',mymain),
>> >     (r'^hello/?',hello),
>> >     (r'^upload/?',upload_to_s3_form),
>> > )
>> >
>> > #if settings.DEBUG: # assuming dev server
>> > #       urlpatterns += patterns(r'^(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve',{'document_root': STATIC_ROOT })
>>
>>
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