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Re: Handling static files with Django

Alfredo — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:35:51 -0000

The sub-domain tips have saved me 1000 headaches ;)
Thank you!

Re: Handling static files with Django

Roy — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 07:10:23 -0000

i found it very usefull, ty :)

Re: Handling static files with Django

DaveEveritt — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 06:37:46 -0000

Thanks for the post - useful. Still in the Django learning curve myself, and one mystery to me at this point is the best way to share a common CSS file across apps within a project. It might be stupidly obvious, but I can't manage it!

Re: Handling static files with Django

SDC — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:45:28 -0000

It is helpful. Thanks!

Re: Handling static files with Django

990adjustments — Sat, 30 May 2009 03:30:48 -0000

Yup, that did it! Thanks so much!! That was driving me nuts. It also helped me understand the patterns a bit more.

Again, thank you for the great resource your providing!

Re: Handling static files with Django

arthurk — Fri, 29 May 2009 13:26:14 -0000

Sounds like you're using contrib.flatpages. The flatpages urlconf has a catch-all rule which tries to find the "/resources/css/style.css" in the database and then throws a 404 because it couldn't find it. It never gets to the static media pattern.

To solve this, just make sure that the static-media pattern comes before the flatpages pattern in your urls.py.

Re: Handling static files with Django

990adjustments — Fri, 29 May 2009 12:47:58 -0000

Thanks for the info. Would you know what may cause the static files not to be served. I've read the docs back and forth and followed your example along with countless others on the net and still nothing. I made sure my MEDIA_URL and ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX were different but still no static files.

When I hit 127.0.0.1/resources/css/style.css
I get a 404 flatpage not found error

At a total loss...

Re: Handling static files with Django

Joseph — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 22:40:52 -0000

Thanks, so much. I wonder why official docs don't clarify this point--it's very confusing to the uninitiated. I appreciate your making the effort to 'initiate' some of us!

Re: Handling static files with Django

Daniel Stocks — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:54:00 -0000

Thanks alot for this, had a hard time figuring out on how to handle static media files with Django.

Re: Handling static files with Django

Arthur — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:47:00 -0000

Fixed, thanks!

Re: Handling static files with Django

leafar — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:05:00 -0000

You have a stray brace after "'/path/to/static_media')," ;)

Re: Handling static files with Django

Alex — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 05:07:00 -0000

Thanks a lot for this article.
Clear and useful!

Re: Handling static files with Django

Arthur — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 23:29:00 -0000

Yes the MEDIA_URL will be in your RequestContext as long as the "django.core.context_process..." is in your TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS setting (which it is by default).

Re: Handling static files with Django

James — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:42:00 -0000

Thanks for the {{media_url}} trick on the template. I got to try it. will the media_url be available with doing anything?

Re: Handling static files with Django

Jer — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:11:00 -0000

Thank you so much for this post! I have been very confused by the the MEDIA_URL and MEDIA_ROOT settings. They documentation doesn't explain how to use them at all. Thank you for laying it all out.