Give path to your STATIC_ROOT of your static folder.
Pervez
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 2:26 PM, DJ-Tom <eventel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm fairly new with Django and currently I'm only "playing around" to get
> a better feeling for the framework.
>
> I have read the documentation and almost all of the posts here about
> configuring static files with the development server but can't get it
> working.
>
> I wanted to modify the admin login screen to show a company logo, so I
> copied base_site.html to /templates/admin/ and added this:
>
> <img src="{{ STATIC_URL }}logo.gif" />
>
>
> This is how my directory structure looks like:
>
> el_test
> el_test
> static
> logo.gif
> settings.py
> urls.py
> templates
> admin
> base_site.html
>
> - Settings.py:
>
> STATIC_ROOT = ''
> STATIC_URL = '/static/'
> STATICFILES_DIRS = (
> )
> STATICFILES_FINDERS = (
> 'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
> 'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
> )
>
> I also added the following to urls.py
>
> urlpatterns += staticfiles_urlpatterns()
>
> The HTML in the admin logon screen looks like this, so basically the URL
> seems to be OK
>
> <div id="branding">
> <img src="/static/logo.gif">
> <h1 id="site-name">Test Admin</h1>
> </div>
>
> Calling http://localhost:8000/static/logo.gif directly shows a 404 error.
>
> As far as I have understood this should work with the dev server and
> debug=true without calling collectstatic
>
> I have also tried moving the /static/ folder around various locations
> below the project directory...
>
> I'm sure there is only some small thing missing...
>
> Any help is highly appreciated :-)
>
> Thomas
>
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