That seemed to do it.. I definitly learned a lot about serving these files.
Thank you to both Tom and Camilo, you helped me a lot!
Thanks again,
Vernon Burt
On Monday, March 10, 2014 6:02:30 AM UTC-7, Tom Evans wrote:
>
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 1:02 AM, Vernon Burt
> <charg...@gmail.com<javascript:>>
> wrote:
> > I suppose that's my confusion - before this, each application directory
> had
> > it's own /static/ directory with /css/, /js/ and /img/ directories as
> > needed. I adjusted the settings as mentioned and tried the following:
>
> Yes - that is how it should be, apart from for project static files,
> if you have any of those. You do not move the static files out of the
> applications.
>
> >
> > DEBUG = False
> > PROJECT_PATH = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
> > STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(PROJECT_PATH, 'static')
> > STATIC_URL = '/static/'
> > STATICFILES_DIRS = ( os.path.join(PROJECT_PATH, 'static'),)
>
> So, a slight problem here. STATIC_ROOT and STATICFILES_DIRS should be
> different.
>
> STATICFILES_DIRS is a list of _additional_ directories that are copied
> to STATIC_ROOT when you run collectstatic. This is where you list your
> project static file directories, if you have any. You do not _need_ to
> have any project static files, if all your static files are in
> my_app/static, then you do not need to put anything in
> STATICFILES_DIRS.
>
> STATIC_ROOT is where files are collected to, IE it should be an empty
> folder, it should not be the origin of your static files, it is where
> your static files are copied to so that they can be efficiently
> delivered to your users.
>
> >
> >
> > CollectStatic now works properly - it collects everything into the
> project
> > root under static. File linking isn't though - the links dont work, and
> so
> > none of the css or javascript loads. I'm wondering if I'm misusing the
> css
> > tags I'm testing with. An example from my base template:
> >
> > {% load static %}
> > <link href="{% static '/css/custom.css' %}" media="screen">
> >
> > Thank you for your time,
> >
>
> Have you configured apache or nginx (or whatever you use) to serve the
> directory STATIC_ROOT at the url STATIC_URL?
>
> Cheers
>
> Tom
>
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