On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 6:06 AM, huw_at1 <huwdjo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the reply. I realised a few moments ago that I can use a
> relative STATIC_URL rather than an absolute one so now I just have
> '/static/' set as the value which works well.
>
> Many thanks
>
> RESOLVED
>
>
> On Wednesday, 26 December 2012 00:53:42 UTC, אברהם סרור wrote:
>
>> Maybe you can just upload the files directly to the collect static folder
>> on the server
>>
>> In any case maybe you want them under version control, so I guess you
>> could just automate all these steps with fabric
>> On Dec 26, 2012 1:00 AM, "huw_at1" <huwd...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi again,
>>>
>>> Another quick question. I'm still getting used to 1.4 and I've been
>>> setting up a remote static file service for the production deployment of my
>>> web app. This works just great however it seems a little cumbersome when
>>> developing if I want to add fresh image content I have to add it to the
>>> project locally, commit and push the changes, deploy to production and
>>> collect the static files there before the image is available to the
>>> development server...This seems like a very round about way of developing -
>>> I must be missing something here although I do not know what? Should I
>>> modify the setting.py to change the STATIC_URL value dependent on whether
>>> the server is production or development or is there any smarter way?
>>>
>>> As ever any advice is much appreciated.
>>>
>>> Huw_at1
>>>
>>>
>>> You can also use the trick:
try:
from local_settings import *
except:
pass
To have a different value in STATIC_URL for your testing environment.
(Obviously, you keep local_settings.py out of revision control.)
Bill
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