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Nanor
Nanor

Reputation: 2560

How does collect static work?

I don't fundamentally understand how manage.py collectstatic works. The idea I had was you have the path 

project/app/static/app/base.css

and run collectstatic and it copies them to a /staticfiles/ folder which can then be accessed by {{STATIC_URL}}. I've tried this and it doesn't seem to find base.css.

Here are my variables for reference:

basepath = os.path.split(os.path.abspath(__file__))[0]    
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(basepath, 'staticfiles')
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{{ STATIC_URL }}base.css" />

Which all leads up to a 404 error when trying to get the stylesheet:

"GET /base.css HTTP/1.1" 404 2255

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1023

Answers (1)

dm03514
dm03514

Reputation: 55972

It seems collectstatic is copying it over fine.

I think you just need to use the {% static "base.css" %} template tag instead of trying to access the STATIC_URL variable

i don't think STATIC_URL is available in the template scope.

you COULD access it doing something like

from django.conf import settings

settings.STATIC_URL

but {% static %} tag does this for you. It seems the version of django is important 1.5 looks like it uses the {% static %} tag, but early versions look like they support STATIC_URL when you have RequestContext registered.

Upvotes: 2

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