The official Django docs specify that STATIC_ROOT is indicated in
settings.py at the STATIC_URL variable (which is near the
bottom). The official Django docs says:
Configure your web server to serve the files in STATIC_ROOT
<https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/ref/settings/#std:setting-STATIC_ROOT>under
the URL STATIC_URL
<https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/ref/settings/#std:setting-STATIC_URL>.
(link
<https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/howto/static-files/deployment/>)
I’m not running Apache. My Django serving is running locally. The
absolute path in my file tree to my Django root directory is:
/home/gnull/Dropbox/TECH/python/2017/django-experiment-with-nick/dobbs_portal_blog/
Inside dobbs_portal_blog is where I placed the static folder.
Therefore, the line in my settings.py where I declare the
variable, I changed from the default:
|
*STATIC_URL ='/static/'*
|
to:
*|
STATIC_URL
='/home/gnull/Dropbox/TECH/python/2017/django-experiment-with-nick/dobbs_portal_blog/static/'
|*
That is my best guess at attempting resolve the “pretty obvious”
error message:
You're using the staticfiles app without having set the
STATIC_ROOT setting to a filesystem path.
Yet I am still doing something wrong because invoking python3
dobbs_portal_blog/manage.py collectstatic, I still get the same
message:
$ python3 dobbs_portal_blog/manage.py collectstatic
You have requested to collect static files at the destination
location as specified in your settings.
This will overwrite existing files! Are you sure you want to
do this?
Type 'yes' to continue, or 'no' to cancel: yes Traceback
(most recent call last): File "dobbs_portal_blog/manage.py",
line 22, in <module> execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
File
"/home/gnull/Dropbox/TECH/python/2017/django-experiment-with-nick/subgenius-blog-env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py",
line 364, in execute_from_command_line utility.execute()
File
"/home/gnull/Dropbox/TECH/python/2017/django-experiment-with-nick/subgenius-blog-env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py",
line 356, in execute
self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
File
"/home/gnull/Dropbox/TECH/python/2017/django-experiment-with-nick/subgenius-blog-env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py",
line 283, in run_from_argv self.execute(*args,
**cmd_options) File
"/home/gnull/Dropbox/TECH/python/2017/django-experiment-with-nick/subgenius-blog-env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py",
line 330, in execute output = self.handle(*args,
**options) File
"/home/gnull/Dropbox/TECH/python/2017/django-experiment-with-nick/subgenius-blog-env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/contrib/staticfiles/management/commands/collectstatic.py",
line 199, in handle collected = self.collect() File
"/home/gnull/Dropbox/TECH/python/2017/django-experiment-with-nick/subgenius-blog-env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/contrib/staticfiles/management/commands/collectstatic.py",
line 124, in collect handler(path, prefixed_path, storage)
File
"/home/gnull/Dropbox/TECH/python/2017/django-experiment-with-nick/subgenius-blog-env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/contrib/staticfiles/management/commands/collectstatic.py",
line 354, in copy_file if not self.delete_file(path,
prefixed_path, source_storage): File
"/home/gnull/Dropbox/TECH/python/2017/django-experiment-with-nick/subgenius-blog-env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/contrib/staticfiles/management/commands/collectstatic.py",
line 260, in delete_file if
self.storage.exists(prefixed_path): File
"/home/gnull/Dropbox/TECH/python/2017/django-experiment-with-nick/subgenius-blog-env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/files/storage.py",
line 392, in exists return os.path.exists(self.path(name))
File
"/home/gnull/Dropbox/TECH/python/2017/django-experiment-with-nick/subgenius-blog-env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/contrib/staticfiles/storage.py",
line 50, in path raise ImproperlyConfigured("You're using
the staticfiles app "
django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: You're using the
staticfiles app without having set the STATIC_ROOT setting to
a filesystem path.
Thanks for your attention and thank you Simon for your patience.
On Saturday, November 18, 2017 at 3:54:11 PM UTC-5, Simon Connah
wrote:
The error message is pretty obvious.
"You're using the staticfiles app without having set the
STATIC_ROOT setting to a filesystem path."
Set the STATIC_ROOT setting in settings.py.
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/ref/settings/#static-root
<https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/ref/settings/#static-root>
On Saturday, 18 November 2017, 20:12:52 GMT, drone4four
<drone...@gmail.com> wrote:
Thank you, Jason. The WYSIWYG editor like ckeditor is
precisely what I am looking for.
I have set out to run ckeditor. I am following along with
the instructions on how to install it
<https://django-ckeditor.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#installation>.
Inside my virtual environment I invoke pip install
django-ckeditor.
Then I add ckeditor to INSTALLED_APPS in settings.py.
But then my shell is telling me that I have improperly
configured static root in the files app even though my
settings.py does include a line: STATIC_URL = '/static/'
The installation doc linked to above does refer to the
official Django doc on how to manage static files
<https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/static-files/>,
which I find to be helpful but isn’t really very applicable
to my particular situation because I do not have any image
files that I am working with in my case at this point.
When I run python3 dobbs_portal_blog/manage.py collectstatic,
I get this error:
$ python3 dobbs_portal_blog/manage.py collectstatic
You have requested to collect static files at the destination
location as specified in your settings.
This will overwrite existing files!
Are you sure you want to do this?
Type 'yes' to continue, or 'no' to cancel: yes
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "dobbs_portal_blog/manage.py", line 22, in <module>
execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
File
"/home/gnull/Dropbox/TECH/python/2017/django-experiment-with-nick/subgenius-blog-env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py",
line 364, in execute_from_command_line
utility.execute()
File
"/home/gnull/Dropbox/TECH/python/2017/django-experiment-with-nick/subgenius-blog-env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py",
line 356, in execute
self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
File
"/home/gnull/Dropbox/TECH/python/2017/django-experiment-with-nick/subgenius-blog-env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py",
line 283, in run_from_argv
self.execute(*args, **cmd_options)
File
"/home/gnull/Dropbox/TECH/python/2017/django-experiment-with-nick/subgenius-blog-env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py",
line 330, in execute
output = self.handle(*args, **options)
File
"/home/gnull/Dropbox/TECH/python/2017/django-experiment-with-nick/subgenius-blog-env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/contrib/staticfiles/management/commands/collectstatic.py",
line 199, in handle
collected = self.collect()
File
"/home/gnull/Dropbox/TECH/python/2017/django-experiment-with-nick/subgenius-blog-env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/contrib/staticfiles/management/commands/collectstatic.py",
line 124, in collect
handler(path, prefixed_path, storage)
File
"/home/gnull/Dropbox/TECH/python/2017/django-experiment-with-nick/subgenius-blog-env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/contrib/staticfiles/management/commands/collectstatic.py",
line 354, in copy_file
if not self.delete_file(path, prefixed_path, source_storage):
File
"/home/gnull/Dropbox/TECH/python/2017/django-experiment-with-nick/subgenius-blog-env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/contrib/staticfiles/management/commands/collectstatic.py",
line 260, in delete_file
if self.storage.exists(prefixed_path):
File
"/home/gnull/Dropbox/TECH/python/2017/django-experiment-with-nick/subgenius-blog-env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/files/storage.py",
line 392, in exists
return os.path.exists(self.path(name))
File
"/home/gnull/Dropbox/TECH/python/2017/django-experiment-with-nick/subgenius-blog-env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/contrib/staticfiles/storage.py",
line 50, in path
raise ImproperlyConfigured("You're using the staticfiles app "
django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: You're using the
staticfiles app without having set the STATIC_ROOT setting to
a filesystem path.
(subgenius-blog-env) gnull at gnosis in
$
On Saturday, November 18, 2017 at 7:46:21 AM UTC-5, Jason wrote:
What you're trying to look for is a WYSIWYG editor (What
You See Is What You Get), and there are a number of third
party packages you can look at
https://djangopackages.org/ grids/g/wysiwyg/
<https://djangopackages.org/grids/g/wysiwyg/>
ckeditor is one of the largest and most popular such
projects, and has integration with django via
https://github.com/django- ckeditor/django-ckeditor
<https://github.com/django-ckeditor/django-ckeditor>
On Friday, November 17, 2017 at 9:21:57 PM UTC-5,
drone4four wrote:
I didn’t do a very good job explaining. Let me try
again.
If you take a look at this image of Blogger, the red
arrow points to the formatting bar
<https://imgur.com/LpksoNE>. The formatting is a
helpful feature in Blogger which allows blog posters
to add an essay worth of content, and then alter the
appearance of the Lorem Ipsum essay content with
bold, italics, underline and a few dozen other
buttons and options.
Then when you click the HTML button
<https://imgur.com/4SD6abe>in the Blogger dashboard,
it shows you the same Lorem Ipsum content, but just
the raw HTML source.
My Django admin panel when creating a new blog post
just accepts plain text. No HTML markup formatting.
Here is a pic of my Django dashboard with a red
arrow pointing to where I am hoping to add an HTML
formatting bar <https://imgur.com/Pkcva1s>. Or does
Django not have an HTML formatting menu feature
helping blog contributors to format their content? I
can’t find it in the model field type / option doc
that I linked to in my original post.
Thank you.
On Wednesday, November 15, 2017 at 10:41:31 PM UTC-5,
Amitesh Sahay wrote:
The HTML file in Django is parsed through
views.py if that is what you are looking for. For
Italics <em> tag should work. For strong text,
you may use <strong> tag. I hope that I have
understood your question correctly.
Hello,
Regards,
Amitesh Sahay
primary :: *91-907 529 6235*
On Thursday 16 November 2017, 6:51:03 AM IST,
drone4four <drone...@gmail.com> wrote:
The contents of my models.py looks like this:
||
fromdjango.db importmodels
# Create your models here.
classPost(models.Model):
title =models.CharField(max_length=25 6)
pub_date =models.DateTimeField()
image =models.ImageField(upload_to=' media/')
body =models.TextField()
def__str__(self):
returnself.title
defpub_date_pretty(self):
returnself.pub_date.strftime('%A %d %B %Y @
%-I:%M:%S %p')
defsummary(self):
returnself.body[:350]
Lines 5 through 8 initiate the model class
variables for my blog dashboard. My dashboard
looks like this <https://imgur.com/a/HTffL>.
There is a title, pub date, image and body. The
Udemy instructor suggests consulting the official
Django doc for field types/options
<https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/ref/models/fields/>.
I’m not sure I really understand most of it.
There is just so much information there. My
question for all of you: Which field option or
field type initiates an HTML parser for body
text? I mean, when I go to to create a new blog
post, how do I create rich text with HTML
formatting buttons like bold, underline and
italics? It’s not really the buttons I care
about. I just want my HTML tags to parse. Take
note of the HTML tags I’ve circled in red here
<https://imgur.com/a/wV4qs>. How do I get the h5,
hr and em to parse? Is there a field option/type
for this? I don’t see it in the models fields doc.
Thanks for your attention.
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