Re: STATIC_ROOT confusion

Here's what I think is semantically good distinction:

PROJECT_ROOT = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))   (that's the dir containing your settings.py, that dir is usually one dir below your virtualenv, I simply name it "pr". You can then use PROJECT_ROOT to reference such as:

STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT, 'static_root')

STATIC_URL = '/static/'

STATICFILES_DIRS = (

    os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT, 'static/css'),

    os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT, 'static/img'),

    os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT, 'static/js'),

)

STATICFILES_FINDERS = (

    'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',

    'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',

)

PROJECT_ROOT, "pr" on the filesystem is what you get when you run django-admin.py startproject pr after you run mkvirtualenv foo.com (foo.com would then be the root of your virtualenv; some also call it SITE_ROOT in Django context because they keep web server config, Sass files, etc. there). Here's the dir structure I came to enjoy, also because it maps nicely to the settings posted above:

sa@sub:~/0/2/sr$ type tad2; tad2

tad2 is aliased to `tree  --charset ascii -ad -L 2  -I \.git*\|*\.\~*\|*\.pyc'

.

|-- bin

|-- cache

|-- gems

|   `-- bin

|-- include

|-- lib

|-- log

|-- pid

|-- pkg

|-- pr

|   |-- apps

|   |-- config

|   |-- docs

|   |-- etc -> etcs/development/

|   |-- etcs

|   |-- fixtures

|   |-- formats

|   |-- libs

|   |-- media

|   |-- media_root

|   |-- static

|   |-- static_root

|   |-- templates

|   `-- tests

|-- sass

|-- share

|-- sock

`-- tmp

28 directories

sa@sub:~/0/2/sr$ 

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