What Is Wrong With This Code In Settings.py File Of My Django Application?

I am using Django 1.4 and Python 2.6 my operating system is Ubuntu 11.10. I am creating my Django app using these directories: project directory: /var/dj/oneliners/ application di

Solution 1:

In development you have to add a specific URL pattern to your urls in urls.py.

The Django docs talk about this in detail here.

Note that you should disable this url in production. So enable the URL pattern only in development, by doing for instance:

if settings.DEBUG:
    urlpatterns += patterns('',
        (r'^static/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve',
         {'document_root': settings.STATICFILES_DIRS[0], 'show_indexes': True}),
    )

assuming the first STATICFILES_DIRS directory is the one containing your CSS (and other static files).

In production it is suggested to never serve static files via Django; do it via Apache or better, Nginx.

Solution 2:

Normally, there is no need to specify if settings.DEBUG: and lines below it: they are automatically loaded w/ staticfiles installed and runserver in DEBUG mode.

What you need to do is to make the STATICFILES_FINDERS to find the css file. For the two defined in you settings.py: FileSystemFinder searches dirs in STATICFILES_DIRS, AppDirectoriesFinder searches for the css in installed apps.

Thus, copy the file to /var/dj/oneliners/static or some_installed_app/static will do the trick. Note that before you start to collect statics to STATIC_ROOT, you could simply leave STATIC_ROOT='', and, STATIC_ROOT should be different from dirs defined in STATICFILES_DIRS (could contain) because they're different in logic.

Solution 3:

add this to your urlpatterns, it works for me (r'^css/(?P.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve', {'document_root': '/xxx/WebRoot/css'}),