Problem with debug = True/False

[Gerald Brown]

On my admin site if I have Debug set to true (I have read that for production this is a no-no) everything looks fine.  When I change it to FALSE all of the styling goes away as if it is being run using gunicorn.

Has anyone observed this?  If so have you found a correction?

Thanks.

[Andréas Kühne]

Hi,

That is the way it should be if you look in the documentation:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.0/howto/static-files/

Serving the files

In addition to these configuration steps, you’ll also need to actually serve the static files.

During development, if you use django.contrib.staticfiles, this will be done automatically by runserver when DEBUG is set to True (see django.contrib.staticfiles.views.serve()).

This method is grossly inefficient and probably insecure, so it is unsuitable for production.

See Deploying static files for proper strategies to serve static files in production environments.

So it is exactly like gunicorn - because you need to serve your static files from a webbserver instead of from django itself.

That's why it is failing.

What you could do (although I don't recommend it) - it to manually add the static files serving to your urls.py file. See:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.0/howto/static-files/#serving-static-files-during-development

This should be fine for a developer environment - but nothing else.

Regards,

Andréas

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[James Farris]

I also recommend going through the deploy checklist. I ran into the same problem and then other problems after that because I didn’t follow this. 

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.0/howto/deployment/checklist/

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[Gerald Brown]

Thanks for the info. I will check it out.  I am still in development so it will be awhile before I need it.

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[Gerald Brown]

Thanks for the info. I will check it out.  I am still in development so it will be awhile before I need it.

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[Gerald Brown]

My site now looks the same in Development and Production.  I think why this is happening is that I ran ./manage.py collectstatic awhile ago,  So if you are getting weird formatting when DEBUG = False try running ./manage.py collectstatic and see if that solves your problem!!!