It depends a lot of what you want to do. Though first of all: do not overwrite it in the Django admin directly. You got two options I think are reasonable: If you want to change the appearance of the admin in general you should override admin templates. This is covered in details here: Overriding … Read more
models.ImageField – these are media files, not static. They get affected by settings: MEDIA_ROOT, MEDIA_URL What the docs say about MEDIA_ROOT: Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. And media files should not be mixed with static files in folders. Media files should … Read more
Eventually solved this using the below in my urls file – from this question: Heroku – Handling static files in Django app from <app> import settings urlpatterns += patterns(”, (r’^static/(?P<path>.*)$’, ‘django.views.static.serve’, {‘document_root’: settings.STATIC_ROOT}), )
No. In fact, the file django/contrib/staticfiles/finders.py even checks for this and raises an ImproperlyConfigured exception when you do so: “The STATICFILES_DIRS setting should not contain the STATIC_ROOT setting” The STATICFILES_DIRS can contain other directories (not necessarily app directories) with static files and these static files will be collected into your STATIC_ROOT when you run collectstatic. … Read more
This is expected behavior. Django does not serve static files or media files in production. You should configure nginx, etc. to serve files. As is specified in the Static file development view section of the documentation: This view will only work if DEBUG is True. That’s because this view is grossly inefficient and probably insecure. … Read more
With DEBUG=False, what originals use to work does not work for me anymore. However a fix by enabling whitenoise on MIDDLEWARE in settings.py solved it. Best to be just below SecurityMiddleware. MIDDLEWARE = [ ‘django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware’, ‘whitenoise.middleware.WhiteNoiseMiddleware’, # add this line #Other middleware… ] “` According to the docs, it actually needs to be enabled in … Read more
Try running: python manage.py collectstatic Does the test work now? If so, this might be the configuration causing a problem: STATICFILES_STORAGE = ‘whitenoise.django.GzipManifestStaticFilesStorage’ as of whitenoise v4 this will fail and you should use: STATICFILES_STORAGE = ‘whitenoise.storage.CompressedManifestStaticFilesStorage’ Related: https://stackoverflow.com/a/32347324/2596187 Check out the Django documentation: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/ref/contrib/staticfiles/#django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.ManifestStaticFilesStorage.manifest_strict
Collect static files from multiple apps into a single path Well, a single Django project may use several apps, so while there you only have one myapp, it may actually be myapp1, myapp2, etc By copying them from inside the individual apps into a single folder, you can point your frontend web server (e.g. nginx) … Read more
# Older Django <3.0 (also deprecated in 2.0): from django.contrib.staticfiles.templatetags.staticfiles import static # Django 3.0+ from django.templatetags.static import static url = static(‘x.jpg’) url now contains ‘/static/x.jpg’, assuming a static path of ‘/static/’
STATIC_ROOT The absolute path to the directory where ./manage.py collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: STATIC_ROOT=”/var/www/example.com/static/” now the command ./manage.py collectstatic will copy all the static files(ie in static folder in your apps, static files in all paths) to the directory /var/www/example.com/static/. now you only need to serve this directory on apache or … Read more