Here's my rewording of your question: "How do I serve static content?"
Websites need to serve up your HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and images. In Django, your views are serving up your HTML. What you need to do is serve up the rest of that stuff. The first way to serve static content, when you are using the Django development server, is to use the 'django.views.static.serve' view. You'll find it documented here: http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/static_files/ Here's the gist, as you might include it in your urls.py: from django.conf import settings (r'^static/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve', {'document_root': settings.MEDIA_ROOT}), Then, in your HTML files, you might include CSS and image files via the following: <link rel="stylesheet" href="/static/style.css" /> and <img src="/static/foo.png" alt="Cool foo image." /> A more 'correct' way might look like this: <link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ MEDIA_URL }}css/style.css" /> Note that MEDIA_URL gets included as a template variable when you use the 'django.core.context_processors.media' template context processor and pass a RequestContext to your template rather than a regular Context. When you get around to deploying into an Apache environment, you'll need to either run a second 'media' server (think 'media.example.com' virtual host) or you can turn off python handling for certain locations under your app host and serve up the static files. Consult your Apache docs for more info (specifically, the Location, Directory, and Alias directives). If you're deploying against lighttpd I would guess the concepts are similar. I guess you don't actually /need/ to serve up your static content via Apache, the above urls.py entry will work fine under Apache. It's more a matter of you /should/ (see the static_files link, they give a better explanation...). Hope this helps. -- Doug Van Horn http://maydigital.com/ On Apr 11, 9:19 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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
