Django 1.3 Static Files - How?

[towerofbabel]

Perhaps someone knows how staticfiles works?

I am developing a site on Django 1.3, and I am basically a beginner at this. My development environment is actually on Apache via wsgi.

I am trying to use the new staticfiles feature of 1.3

I have defined a static directory and a static URL in settings.py. 

The static URL is configured in Apache to point to the static directory - this is confirmed as working.

I have confirmed that my static directory is available to django by running mange.py collectstatic - this writes my admin static files, and other static files I have in a a separate directory, to the declared static directory.

In my template, I refer to static files like this:

href="{{ STATIC_URL }}css/some.css"

The problem is that when the HTML is rendered, I get this:

href="css/some.css"

I don't understand why django doesn't populate {{ STATIC_URL }} with the URL i have defined in settings.py

Has anyone had a similar problem?

There is no static URL.

[towerofbabel]

When I say I have defined a static directory I of course meant STATIC_ROOT - I wrote this without the code in front of me.

[Alex Arshavski]

Go to your views file and add:

from django.template import RequestContext

and in your view add:

return render_to_response("<your html>", {<your data>}, context_instance=RequestContext(request))

That should bring the variables from settings.py to your template.

Hope it helps.

Regards, Alex A.

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 11:55 AM, towerofbabel <pauly...@gmail.com> wrote:

When I say I have defined a static directory I of course meant STATIC_ROOT - I wrote this without the code in front of me.

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[Udi Oron]

Hi!

1.

Is django.contrib.staticfiles included in your INSTALLED_APPS ?

2.

An easier and more readable way to render template with the request context is using django-annoying's render_to decorator:

https://bitbucket.org/offline/django-annoying/wiki/Home

Udi

[Meir Kriheli]

Hi

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Udi Oron <udi...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi!

1.

Is django.contrib.staticfiles included in your INSTALLED_APPS ?

2.

An easier and more readable way to render template with the request context is using django-annoying's render_to decorator:

https://bitbucket.org/offline/django-annoying/wiki/Home

Udi

There's no need for that. Django 1.3 has a render shortcut (plus I don't like decorators for this type of operation):

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/topics/http/shortcuts/#render

And in Django < 1.3 the direct_to_template generic view could be used for the same thing.
 

Cheers
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[towerofbabel]

Thanks, it was that simple.

[Alex Arshavski]

You're welcome :)

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 3:31 PM, towerofbabel <pauly...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks, it was that simple.

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[towerofbabel]

Ah nice, that is even better!

Thanks.