Issue with website migration

[edalb1979]

Good day.

I have been requested to move a site for someone from there current hosting company to our hosting company.

I have gotten so far that the site is up and running but none of the stylesheets or images are showing up.

I have had a look at the source code of the site and I do see that it is not showing up right.

<link href="/static/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen,projection" />
<link href="/static/css/bootstrap-non-responsive.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen,projection" />
<link href="/static/css/main.css" 

This is a first for me working with Django so I am very unfamiliar with how a application like this would be structured.

I would appreciate the help with getting the clients site up and running again.

Kind Regards

 

[Erik Cederstrand]

> Den 11/12/2014 kl. 13.13 skrev edalb1979 <eug...@inx.co.za>:
>
> Good day.
>
> I have been requested to move a site for someone from there current hosting company to our hosting company.
>
> I have gotten so far that the site is up and running but none of the stylesheets or images are showing up.
> I have had a look at the source code of the site and I do see that it is not showing up right.
>
> <link href="/static/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen,projection" />
> <link href="/static/css/bootstrap-non-responsive.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen,projection" />
> <link href="/static/css/main.css"

/static/foo is shorthand for http(s)://your.website.tld/static/foo

Your new web server should be serving http(s)://your.website.tld/static/foo URLs but isn't. You need to find out why. Probably the old website has rules to serve static files directly from the filesystem, which you need to migrate to the new server, or the rules are in place but the static files are missing from where the web server expected to find them.

Erik

[shmengie]

The web server uses less resources serving static, than django, so the responsibility for serving static content is often left to the web server.

You should look at the settings.py file for other potential paths as well.
Look in the settings.py for other potential issues.

There is the potential a "media" path may also rely on web server resources.

settings.py *should* contain information that pertains to both "static" and/or "media" resources.