Re: Yet Another Can't get static files to show up in shared linux website on Godaddy

Hi,

Do *not* put your project into the webserver's document root. Doing so
will likely expose secret data (your source code including the database
password and SECRET_KEY).

Your STATIC_ROOT must be a location that your webserver serves under
STATIC_URL. If you cannot configure your webserver to do this, you can
use http://whitenoise.evans.io/en/stable/.

However, you will probably run into the same limitation when you want to
serve user-uploaded files ("media"), and whitenoise cannot help you
there. You will have to serve your media files from an external server,
such as Amazon S3.

I recommend deploying to an environment with WSGI support, btw. FCGI is
not supported anymore:
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/howto/deployment/fastcgi/. If you
do not want to setup your own server, PythonAnywhere and Heroku are
popular choices.

Regards,
René


On 04/10/2017 07:47 AM, Anthony Percy wrote:
> Hi all,
> Sorry to ask this question but I cant get my static files in Mezzanine
> to show up on a Godaddy hosted site e.g http://www.murraybridge.co
> <http://www.murraybridge.co/>
> I have had to use "pip install flup" and "pip
> install django-fastcgi-server" as Godaddy seems to have the fcgi module
> active on the apache webserver which I understand is now deprecated.
> The .htaccess file is in ~/public_html is ;
>
> AddHandler fcgid-script .fcgi
> RewriteEngine On
> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
> RewriteRule ^(.*)$ mezproject.fcgi/$1 [QSA,L]
>
> My "mezproject.fcgi" file in ~/public_html is;
>
> /#!/home/vk2acp/code/mez/bin/python/
> /import sys, os/
> /# Add a custom Python path./
> /sys.path.insert(0, "/home/vk2acp/code/mezproject")/
> /# Switch to the directory of your project. (Optional.)/
> /os.chdir("/home/vk2acp/code/mezproject")/
> /# Set the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE environment variable./
> /os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = "mezproject.settings"/
> /from django_fastcgi.servers.fastcgi import runfastcgi/
> /from django.core.servers.basehttp import get_internal_wsgi_application/
> /wsgi_application = get_internal_wsgi_application()/
> /runfastcgi(wsgi_application, method="prefork", daemonize="false",
> minspare=1, maxsp/
> /are=1, maxchildren=1)/
>
> The "static" dir exists in the mezproject dir after I did "python
> manage.py collectstatic"
> I have tried copying static dir to the public_html dir with no effect.
> Obviously I cant add the "Alias" directive as I have no control over the
> http.conf file.
> It seems a pity to get this far and run into this brick wall!!!
> Do I have to run the whole mez project from the public_html dir???
> Any suggestions?
>
> Best Regards
>
> Anthony
>
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