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Chris May
Chris May

Reputation: 582

Python Django static css files

I know this is a stupid question, but I've read through the Django documentation a dozen times and read every related question on on here and still can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.

I'm trying to link my template CSS to a file in my static root. Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

settings.py:

STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATIC_ROOT =  'C:/Users/Chris/Dropbox/MyProject/MyProject/static/styles/'

STATICFILES_DIRS = (
    "C:/Users/Chris/Dropbox/MyProject/MyProject/static/styles",
    )

in the template:

{% load staticfiles %}
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{% static '/styles/style.css' %}">

urls.py

from django.conf.urls.static import static

urlpatterns = patterns('',

# my url patterns here

) + static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)
urlpatterns += static(settings.STATIC_URL, document_root=settings.STATIC_ROOT)

My guess is that either the static files code in urls.py is incorrect or the STATICFILES_DIRS in settings.py, but I've tried a million combinations based on other questions on stackoverflow and nothing seems to work. I just get a 404 page not found error.

Any help is appreciated. I've spent an embarrassing amount of time on this.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1555

Answers (3)

BernardNdegwa
BernardNdegwa

Reputation: 96

Using static path maybe more intuitive.

In settings.py declare

STATIC_PATH = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static')
# Add any additional locations of static files

STATICFILES_DIRS = (
# Put strings here, like "/home/html/static" or "C:/www/django/static".
# Always use forward slashes, even on Windows.
# Don't forget to use absolute paths, not relative paths.
# os.path.join(ROOT_PATH, "public")
    STATIC_PATH,
)

Then in your template simply load the files

Upvotes: 0

Burhan Khalid
Burhan Khalid

Reputation: 174718

You have two main problems:

  1. Your STATIC_ROOT directory is included in STATICFILES_DIRS. STATIC_ROOT is where the collectstatic command will copy all static files, once you are ready for deployment. You obviously don't want this path to be any where you already have static files as all files in this path are overwritten.

  2. Your static url is including a path component already included in STATICFILES_DIRS. You have /MyProject/static/styles in STATICFILES_DIRS, this means that the static tag will look inside this directory for requested files. Now you are requesting a link to '/styles/style.css', and so django is looking for this file: /MyProject/static/styles/styles/style.css which does not exist. To fix the problem, change the static tag to {% static 'style.css' %}.

Upvotes: 2

Wagh
Wagh

Reputation: 4306

try this in settings.py file

STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(SITE_ROOT, 'templates/static/')
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATICFILES_DIRS = (

                         SITE_ROOT + '/templates',

)
STATICFILES_FINDERS = (
    'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',

)

and in urls.py file

urlpatterns += patterns('',
                        (r'^static/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve',
                         {'document_root': os.path.join(settings.SITE_ROOT, 'templates/static')}),

                    )

hope this will help you

Upvotes: 0

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