Thanks for your response! I finally got it working. I was using the dev server and with your link I was able to cobble together some responses there. After playing around a bit I now see what is going on. One of the responses was that maybe /media/ was "special" in some way. I was using that dir name. Another responder said it wasn't special as long as ADMIN_MEDIA_ROOT was not using the same dir name. Of course it was since Django sets it up that way. Another thing, which I had to find out for myself, was that there are two urlconf files, one in the project dir and another in the app dir. I was placing the regex in the app dir and it doesn't work from there, only in the project dir url.py file can the regex be defined. I love Django, but this is a real showstopper when someone is evaluating for possible use and then runs into such a ridiculous problem. The developers say that this is to prevent people from using an inefficient and insecure method of serving media. I suggest they should just document it well, let the dev server serve the media and stop trying to protect people from themselves. Their valiant effort to protect is causing many people headaches over something that should be totally transparent. Just my two cents....
On Jan 20, 2:23 pm, "Karen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are you using the development server? If so, have you read and > followed the instructions here: > > http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/static_files/ > > ? > > (I too started out by trying to set MEDIA_ROOT to get Django to serve > up my stylesheets, but it won't do it. It seems from various comments > there is often confusion in this area when getting started.) > > If you are using apache or some other webserver, there are also some > pointers on that page to other pages to guide setting up your > production webserver to serve yourcssfiles. > > Hope this helps, > Karen > > rsie wrote: > > I'm having trouble getting my templates to recognize the location of my > >cssfiles. I've set MEDIA_ROOT to /home/rsie/projects/django_templates > > which has a directory media/cssunder it. The following is the > > stylesheet line in my template: <link href="/media/css/default.css" > > rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />. Problem is it never resolves the > > location correctly. Am I using MEDIA_ROOT correctly and if not does > > anybody know what might be the problem? > > > thanks > > Ron --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
