N/M, I solved it. I found this little gem:
from django.template import RequestContext
[code...]
return render_to_response('base.html',locals(),
context_instance = RequestContext(request))
which gives me access to the URL from the templates. This should
definitely be in the documentation in the basic templating tutorial
because up until I've found this, everyone has been acting like
MEDIA_URL is accessible with no additional steps.
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Jon J <urbanconfeder...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It doesn't appear that simple. When I try to insert {{MEDIA_URL}} into
> my template, I get no output whatsoever. I haven't been able to find
> anything on this.
>
> On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Sam Walters <mr.sam...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Yes it already exists {{MEDIA_URL}}
>>
>> Thats what the settings.py file does...
>>
>> There is a bunch of stuff you can read about in the docs:
>>
>> http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/howto/static-files/
>>
>> Also for some of my own deployments there are a bunch of static file
>> servers so i just put these into settings:
>> {{MEDIA_URL_VIDEO}}
>> {{MEDIA_URL_IMAGES}}
>> etc...
>>
>> Basically its as extensible as you want to make it.
>>
>> cheers
>>
>> sam_w
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Jon J <urbanconfeder...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Maybe I'm missing something...
>>>
>>> I would say I'm relatively familiar with the Django framework by this
>>> point. I'm mocking up a website, and I want to link static files into
>>> the base template. Instead of having the url's directly in the
>>> template, I'd like to call the STATIC_URL variable from within the
>>> template, so for example I could have
>>>
>>> <link rel="style" type="text/css" href="{{ STATIC_URL }}style.css" />
>>>
>>> instead of
>>>
>>> <link rel="style" type="text/css" href="http://www.domain.org/style.css"; />
>>>
>>> Is this something that's possible or advisable? How is this problem
>>> normally handled so I don't have to retype pretty much everything if I
>>> move my site around? I haven't been able to find anything in the
>>> documentation regarding this.
>>>
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