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Reputation: 3663

Django won't serve my CSS or Javascript files -- static files

In settings.py, part of my code sets the static url.

STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "static")
STATIC_URL = '/static/'

My static files and folders are at /home/myLinuxUsername/myApp/static/interactive-preview-dependencies. That has the folders containing CSS, JS and images. It has the folders images, scripts and stylesheets.

My urls.py's urlpatterns is like this:

urlpatterns = [
    # .. SOME CODE HERE .. 
    url(r'^interactive/$', interactive),
]

My views.py is like this:

def interactive(request):
    t=  get_template('interactive/index.html')
    return HttpResponse(t.render())

And here's an example of how I try to load CSS on interactive/index.html (updated):

<link rel="stylesheet" href=static 'interactive-preview-dependencies/styles/main.css' %}">

When I run python manage.py runserver and go to localhost:8000/interactive, the terminal gives me this error: "GET /static/interactive-preview-dependencies/styles/main.css HTTP/1.1" 404 1757

How do I fix this so Django finds and loads the CSS?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 242

Answers (1)

fodma1
fodma1

Reputation: 3535

If I understand correctly, your app is called myApp and interactive-preview-dependencies is just a subfolder inside /home/myLinuxUsername/myApp/static/. According to Managing static files. You should reference it as

... href="{% static "myApp/interactive-preview-dependencies/styles/main.css" %}"

Upvotes: 1

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