> Thanks. The diagram clarified what I'd already thought to a degree, > although I'd gotten confused by the warning in the documentation for > STATIC_ROOT, which says >
" This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is *not* a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles <https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/ref/contrib/staticfiles/>’s finders <https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/ref/settings/#std:setting-STATICFILES_FINDERS>, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS <https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/ref/settings/#std:setting-STATICFILES_DIRS> ). " I've set the variables in my settings.py; STATIC_ROOT = "C:/inetpub/wwwroot/shopfront/static/" STATIC_URL = '/static/' I've added 'django.contrib.staticfiles', to my INSTALLED_APPS > I've run the collectstatic and it did indeed put my handful of static files in \static\ grouped into their respective folders. I've even added the STATICFILES_FINDERS to my settings.py STATICFILES_FINDERS = [ 'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder', 'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder', 'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder', ] When I view the source of my page, I can see the url built from "{% static my_apps.app_icon %}" resolves to /static/images/filename.png To be sure, I wasn't going totally mad I added the following to my urls.py and re-enabled DEBUG from django.conf import settingsfrom django.conf.urls.static import static urlpatterns = [ # ... the rest of your URLconf goes here ...] + static(settings.STATIC_URL, document_root=settings.STATIC_ROOT) and low and behold, it worked just fine but I obviously cannot leave it like that. Having gone through the tutorial, I thought Django would be a great tool but I seem to be struggling with the most simple of things and I've barely started this project, I'm just trying to test out some basics including the deployment. Kind regards, Tony -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/4dd09450-11d0-49da-b21e-dae4856752cf%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
