Template can't find image file

Gary Roach

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Dec 7, 2015, 6:46:14 PM12/7/15

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While I'm working with "Tango with Django" I am using Django 1.8 and
Python 3.4 (debian linux).

My project tree (somewhat truncated) is in the /root directory and looks
as follows:

tango
├── bin
├── include
├── lib
└── tango
├── db.sqlite3
├── __init__.py
├── manage.py
├── rango
├── requirements.txt
├── static
│ ├── images
│ └── __init__.py
├── tango
│ ├── __init__.py
│ ├── __init__.pyc
│ ├── __pycache__
│ ├── settings.py
│ ├── settings.pyc
│ ├── urls.py
│ └── wsgi.py
├── tango.nja
└── templates
├── __init__.py
└── rango

The pertinent parts of the settings.py file are:

BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))

TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'DIRS': [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates')],
'APP_DIRS': True,
'OPTIONS': {

STATIC_PATH = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static')

STATIC_URL = '/static/'

STATICFILES_DIRS = (
STATIC_PATH,
)

The rango index.html file is:

<!DOCTYPE html>

{% load static from staticfiles %}
<html>

<head>
<title>Rango</title>
</head>

<body>
<h1>Rango says...</h1>
hello world! <strong>{{ boldmessage }}</strong><br />
<a href="/rengo/about">About</a><br />
<img src="{% static "images/apache2.png" %}" alt="Picture of
Apache logo"/>
</body>

</html>

The apache2.png is just a handy image file.

The result of 127.0.0.1:8000/rango/ is:

Rango says...
hello world! I am bold font from the context
About
Picture of Apache logo

I've tried everything I can think of to try to get the image served and
have totally failed. The firefox debugger just says "failed to load the
given URL"

What am I doing wrong.

Gary R

Lucas Magnum

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Dec 8, 2015, 7:00:09 AM12/8/15

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Have you changed your urls.py? https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/howto/static-files/#serving-static-files-during-development

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Lucas Magnum.

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Gary Roach

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OOPs forgot to include these.

/root/tango/tango/urls.py is:

from django.conf.urls import include, url

from django.contrib import admin

urlpatterns = [

url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),

url(r'^rango/', include('rango.urls', namespace='rango')),

]

/root/tango/rango/urls.py is:

from django.conf.urls import patterns, url

from rango import views

urlpatterns = patterns('',

url(r'^$', views.index, name='index'),

)

rango/views.py is:

from django.shortcuts import render

def index(request):

context = {'boldmessage': "I am bold font from the context"}

return render(request, 'rango/index.html', context)

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I hope this helps

Gary R.

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