Re: Django can't see my static files

Thomas and Lokesh,

Thanks very much for your help.  I've modified the link in my HTML file to be:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href={{ STATIC_URL }}stylesheet.css />

where "stylesheet" is the name of the CSS file, and this file is located inside the directory listed under STATIC_DIRS in my settings.py file.  As mentioned in my prior email, I also already have STATIC_URL = '/static/' in my settings.py file, and I have the correct methods listed under STATICFILES_FINDERS.

But it is still not working.  Do I have a syntax error somewhere?  Or am I still missing something in another file?

thanks,
Guillaume

On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 6:45 PM, Thomas Orozco <g.orozco.thomas@gmail.com> wrote:

If your css file is locatedr in your staticfiles dir, you should use something such as {{ STATIC_URL }}main.css, assuming your CSS file is called main and is located in one of the STATIC_DIRS.

Using staticfiles_dirs in a template makes no sense. Not only your are passing a parameter that has to do with your system configuration and not your urls, but you are also using a directory instead of a file.

In short, it is the static_url parameter that should be passed to form a URL.

Le 1 août 2011 12:17, "Gchorn" <guillaumechorn@gmail.com> a écrit :

> Hello All,
>
> I'm using Django to develop a website, and I'm having trouble getting
> it to see my static files. I've looked through Django's static file
> documentation and the steps I've taken to get Django to see my files
> (using a CSS file as an example) are as follows:
>
> First, I created a folder called "static" inside the main app folder
> for this project. Then, I added "/static/" to the STATIC_URLS section
> of the settings.py file, and I also added the full path to my CSS file
> under the STATICFILES_DIRS section of settings.py.
>
> Then I added the line:
>
> from django.template import RequestContext, loader
>
> As well as "context_instance= RequestContext(request)" as a third
> argument to the "return render_to_response()" call.
>
> Finally, in my url.py file, I added this line at the top:
>
> from django.contrib.staticfiles.urls import staticfiles_urlpatterns
>
> And this line at the bottom (separate from the initial "urlpatterns =
> patterns()" call):
>
> urlpatterns += staticfiles_urlpatterns()
>
> In my HTML/Django template, I added the following link to my CSS file:
>
> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href={{ STATIC_DIRS }} />
>
> But then after all of this, when I perform a "python manage.py
> runserver" to preview the website, Django still does not appear to
> find the external CSS file. I must still be missing something but I'm
> not sure what--does anyone know???
>
> I'm sure I'm missing something very basic but I'm a total beginner so
> please be patient with me, I probably need a lot of very specific
> instructions...
>
> thanks,
> Guillaume
>

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