It depends how you are running. When using "manage.py runserver" it
serves the static files for you, without even needing to collect them
IIRC. But when deploying, you have to run "manage.py collectstatic" and
Django collects all the files from the other locations for you and puts
them in STATIC_ROOT, which you would configure your webserver to serve
at STATIC_URL. The docs are pretty clear on this:
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/howto/static-files/
Regards
Phil
On 23/04/2012 12:49, gnesher wrote:
But then shouldn't I expect the files to be served from the
STATIC_ROOT as well ?
On Apr 23, 12:38 pm, Philip Mountifield<pmountifi...@formac.net>
wrote:
There is a slight difference:
* STATIC_ROOT is where you would like the files to be collected to
when you run "manage.py collectstatic" and should be empty to begin
with.
* STATICFILES_DIRS is where the actual files are located and they will
be automagically servered under the development server.
* You can also create a folder called "static" in any app and put
files in there.
Regards
Phil
On 23/04/2012 12:32, gnesher wrote:
Hi,
I'm not sure if this is a bug or am I missing something but I've
created a very simple test environment and placed a single png file
within my static folder.
The file is being served fine when I set :
STATIC_ROOT = ''
STATICFILES_DIRS = (
'/Users/guynesher/Work/play/quicktest/testproj/static/',
)
however I'm geting a 404 error when I set it like this :
STATIC_ROOT = '/Users/guynesher/Work/play/quicktest/testproj/static/'
STATICFILES_DIRS = (
)
Based on the STATICFILES_DIRS comment (Additional locations of static
files) I expected I will only need to use it if I have multiple static
files directory which doesn't seem to be the case.
What am I missing here?
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