You're problems are one and the same. It seems you're runserver isn't
configured to serve images. The bit of code you're looking for is:
if settings.DEBUG:
urlpatterns += patterns('',
(r'^site_media/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve',
{'document_root': '/path/to/media'}),
)
where /site_media/* is the path of your files. So if you have master.css
that lives in a css folder in /path/to/media, you'd reference it as:
/site_media/css/master.css
similarly, if you have an img directory under site_media, you would
reference your images to /site_media/img/foo.jpg
You will also want to look into setting up the MEDIA_URL for your
settings.py file. I would suggest: 'http://localhost:8000/site_media/'
Now instead of referring to your css file as:
/site_media/css/master.css
you can now refer to it as
{{ MEDIA_URL }}css/master.css
which should ease the pain of migration when your media might not live in
/site_media/
for more info, check out
http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/static_files/
I'm not sure if you were asking but "Serving static media" basically means
"Tell runserver it can find my images _HERE_" where _HERE_ is defined in the
code snippet above.
Hop on by #django on irc.freenode.net if you have any more problems (or just
reply here).
-justin
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 10:19 PM, Greg Lindstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Hello Everyone-
>
> I started learning Django at PyCon in Chicago and have worked most of the
> way through the "Django Book" and Sams "Teach Yourself Django", as well as
> "Head First HTML with CSS and XHTML". It's been quite a lot for this old
> dog, but I'd like to take a crack a writing my own web site using Django. I
> have two problems, and I think they are related. The first is how to get
> images in my site and the next is how to use css.
>
> I wrote Jacob about images and he was kind enough to point me to
> documentation on how to get the web server to "serve" the images. I hate to
> put it this bluntly, but I don't know what that means (I've been programming
> database applications for 20 years and all this web stuff is still pretty
> new to me). Is there something that explains to someone like me how to get
> images into the site? Though I'm running Django on my Ubuntu laptop, I
> would like to eventually have it hosted. I would like to know how to "do"
> images locally, then what I need to do when I host my site.
>
> The other problem is getting css to work with my site. I have set up a
> base.html template (I love the templates, thank-you) and extend it with
> other templates, call one greg.html. The html generates just as I expect it
> to (overriding blocks just as it should), but it doesn't "see" the style
> sheet. One it gets "in" the template I'm OK; the "Head First" book did a
> pretty good job explaining it. I even put a syntax error in my view so
> Django would list out the settings, but couldn't find where Django is
> looking for the css file. I suspect it is a similar problem to the images,
> but I just don't know.
>
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> --greg
>
> >
>
--
Justin Lilly
Web Developer/Designer
http://justinlilly.com
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