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Andrei Moiseev
Andrei Moiseev

Reputation: 4084

Serving static HTML files without extension in Django

I want to serve static html files at development. I want every file.html to be served at /file.

It's clear that in production static files should be served via Nginx or something else.

But how to do it at development, in an elegant way? It would me amazing with index.html at /, also.

What i have now:

In urls.py

if settings.DEBUG:
    def index(request):
        return render(request, 'index.html')
    urlpatterns += patterns('', url(r'^$', index))
    urlpatterns += static('/', document_root=settings.BASE_DIR+'/static/')

And also in settings.py

STATIC_URL = '/static/'

TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
    os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static/'),
)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 414

Answers (1)

aumo
aumo

Reputation: 5574

I would write a view that handles adding the .html and configure a URLConf to use it.

The view

from django.conf import settings
from django.contrib.staticfiles.views import serve


def serve_html(request, file_name):
    if not file_name:
        file_name = 'index'

    file_path = '{}.html'.format(file_name)

    # Use Django staticfiles's serve view.
    return serve(request, file_path)

The URLConf

url(r'^(?P<file_name>.*)$', serve_html)

It is important to put the URLConf last in your urls.py otherwise, it will catch all requests and your other URLConfs will not be reached.

Upvotes: 1

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