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daniels
daniels

Reputation: 19223

Why doesn't Django allow me to use /static/ as URL for static files?

I have the following in my urls.py

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

And it does not work. I always get 'filename.txt' could not be found If I change the URL from r'^static/(?P<path>.*)$' to anything else, like for example r'^staticabc/(?P<path>.*)$' it works.

Any idea how can I get this URL working?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 95

Answers (1)

Thomas
Thomas

Reputation: 11888

see: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/static-files/#configuring-static-files

In the "Serving the files" info box, it explains that this is done for you automatically if DEBUG = True.

The version that it uses serves static files from the locations discovered by your STATICFILES_FINDERS

The extra definition you're providing overrides this one, and ONLY serves files from the STATIC_ROOT, which will be empty unless you've just run collectstatic will be empty.

Upvotes: 1

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