Well, this doesn't work completely.
Consider the (static) tree:
/client
index.html
/apps
another.html
/css
style.css
/js
my.js
I need to serve this whole static tree out of /.
On Tuesday, April 21, 2015 at 10:08:26 PM UTC-4, LiteWait wrote:
>
> I have no clue why this works, but I added the /client directory (full
> path) to STATICFILE_DIRS and...
>
> from django.conf import settings
> if settings.DEBUG:
> urlpatterns += patterns(
> 'django.contrib.staticfiles.views',
> url(r'^(?:index.html)?$', 'serve', kwargs={'path': 'index.html'}),
> url(r'^(?P<path>(?:js|css|img)/.*)$', 'serve'),
>
>
> Now /client/index.html is served up fine, as well as Django normal routes
> like /admin, /api, etc. I really wish I understood this better.
>
>
>
> On Tuesday, April 21, 2015 at 4:02:24 PM UTC-4, ke1g wrote:
>>
>> That may work for most static things. The question is whether the static
>> server is happy with an empty path, assuming that you're trying to serve
>> "/" this way. If not, you might add a separate (earlier) pattern of r'^$'
>> that specifies a path in the extra parameters dictionary (where you have
>> 'document_root', and you may want it's document_root to be different to
>> avoid serving the home page at two urls).
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 1:56 PM, LiteWait <t...@toogopos.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Planning to host the client side of our application in production from a
>>> proxy to an S3 site from Nginx.
>>>
>>> The problem is we'd like to mimic this behavior by serving / in Django
>>> runserver using a static directory url() entry.
>>>
>>> I've read over
>>> https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/howto/static-files/#serving-other-directories
>>> but
>>> I can't seem to make Django route / to my client directory.
>>>
>>> Idea is I have a project directory* /client *which contains index.html
>>> along with all the other files for site, and when I hit
>>> http://127.0.0.1:8000/ I want to serve up
>>> *<projectdirectory>/client/index.html.*
>>>
>>> Not sure the following will work because I don't think you can't have a
>>> STATIC_URL = '/', right?
>>>
>>> from django.contrib.staticfiles.urls import staticfiles_urlpatterns
>>> urlpatterns += staticfiles_urlpatterns()
>>>
>>>
>>> This one seems to make more sense, but I am not clear on what URL
>>> pattern could pull this off..
>>>
>>> if settings.DEBUG:
>>> urlpatterns += patterns('',
>>> url(r'^(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve', {'document_root':
>>> '/client',}),
>>> )
>>>
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