Re: can't get STATICFILES to work (Django dev version)

Hi,

Using a static directory like that on the development server sounds wrong and you'll most probably have issues when the site goes live.

From what you said, it looks like you are confusing STATICFILES_DIRS and STATICFILES_ROOT.

Regards,

Xavier.

Le 27 sept. 2011 à 05:29, nara a écrit :

Good news, my static files finally work. (I wanted to make
one last try before giving up). Bottom line, I did not
have to make any changes to my original settings.py or urls.py.
All I did: created a static dir. under my app's directory, placed
the css files under it, and put '/static/css/blueprint/screen.css' to
refer to the external css. That was it.

Here is the head section of my template file, list.html:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
 <link rel="stylesheet" href="/static/css/blueprint/screen.css"
type="text/css" media="screen, projection">
 <link rel="stylesheet" href="/static/css/blueprint/print.css"
type="text/css" media="print">
 <!--[if lt IE 8]>
   <link rel="stylesheet" href="/static/css/blueprint/ie.css"
type="text/css" media="screen, projection">
 <![endif]-->


Thanks
Nara

On Sep 26, 6:02 pm, nara <nar...@gmail.com> wrote:

Xavier,

I followed the blog, and at the end, my css files were not getting

pulled in.

I then tried doing a ./manage.py collectstatic, and this does collect

all

static files. Unfortunately, running the server still does not serve

my

css files.

I have spent too many cycles on this issue now. I will go back to my

workaround of just placing css inline in the templates, and later,

use Apache on my local machine to serve the css files.

Thanks

Nara

On Sep 25, 2:44 pm, Xavier Ordoquy <xordo...@linovia.com> wrote:

Hi,

I have read and followed the docs on static files.

django.contrib.staticfiles is in INSTALLED_APPS

(by default), and I have set STATICFILES_DIRS to where my static files

are (/home/nara/media). (I have

tried with and without a slash at the end of this absolute file path).

Static files aren't media. You should keep them separated.

I am confused about whether ./manage.py collectstatic is a necessary

step for static files to work, I didn't think so, and have not done

that.

It isn't if you aren't on production stage (ie, DEBUG=False).

I have started a post on how to setup static files. It isn't finished yet but might help you to set it up:http://www.linovia.com/blog/django-staticfiles-howto/

Regards,

Xavier.

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