this newsgroup.
I learned that STATIC_ROOT is the directory where all the static files
will live in when the site is hosted via nginx , apache or a
production webserver.
Following development , the static files are gathered from the various
directories listed in STATICFILES_DIRS and then prepared for hosting
from STATIC_ROOT.
Importantly for my case . I had to add the location of my static file
source directory to the STATICFILE_DIRS tuple in settings.py. I had to
also not add the STATIC_ROOT directory to that list. The two should
not be mixed up .
Importantly also , I got bitten by the trailing slash in my template.
To serve up the static files, my templates just said
{{STATIC_URL}}logo.png . Instead of {{STATIC_URL}}/logo.png - i.e NO
SLASH after
the {{STATIC_URL}}
So I now have staticfiles served up without any extra pattern in my urls.py.
Thanks everyone
Hari
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 5:04 PM, hari jayaram <harijay@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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