Re: Trying understand static files.

Thanks guys - that worked!!!!!!!!!

I'm going to call it black magic - because to be truthful I don't
understand how it really works. If anyone has a better link than
Django's on static files that explains what is really happening - it
would be very helpful.

Johnf

On 04/22/2015 04:57 PM, Mike Dewhirst wrote:
> On 23/04/2015 9:35 AM, john wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I have created a website that works well under "runserver". But when I
>> use nginx and uwsgi the basic website comes up but it is missing the
>> static file information. I have run "manage.py collectstatic" but still
>> no static files are used.
>>
>> Reading the Django doc's tells me that I need the webserver to serve the
>> static files. Ok I think I can do that (maybe). But I don't understand
>> completely. In my templates I have links like:
>> <link href = "{% static 'css/bootstrap.min.css' %}" rel="stylesheet">
>>
>> How does the nginx server understand to provide the css file for my html
>> page from the code above?
>>
>> I read that I can add a 'location' in the nginx config file but don't
>> understand how nginx would understand to provide it when my template is
>> called.
>
> You probably want three locations ... here are mine:
>
> location /static/ {
> root /home/mike/envs/pq5/project;
> access_log off;
> log_not_found off;
> }
>
> location /robots.txt {
> root /home/mike/envs/pq5/project/static;
> access_log off;
> log_not_found off;
> }
>
> location /favicon.ico {
> root /home/mike/envs/pq5/project/static/img;
> access_log off;
> log_not_found off;
>
> So whenever a client browser requests something prefixed by /static/
> nginx sees that and substitutes the value of "root". Therefore,
> collectstatic has to put your css files exactly where your template
> says to look for them.
>
> Collectstatic knows exactly where by checking the value in
> settings.STATIC_ROOT
>
> hth
>
> mike
>
>>
>> Thanks for the help in advance.
>>
>> Johnf
>>
>>
>

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