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Joao Lucas
Joao Lucas

Reputation: 95

CSS disappears when 'DEBUG' Django is turned False

I'm working with Django and I'm using a AdminLTE framework for the estilização, but, when I turn the DEBUG to False, the page shows with pure html.

DEBUG = True: enter image description here

DEBUG = False:enter image description here

settings.py:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',

    'saga.core',
    'saga.subjects',
    'saga.accounts',
    'saga.tasks',
    'saga.study_time',
    'django_adminlte',
    'django_adminlte_theme',
]

django_adminlte and django_adminlte_theme are the apps for the style framework.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1833

Answers (2)

Victor Mwendwa
Victor Mwendwa

Reputation: 1

When Debug = False , Django will not recognise the static files such as css and images. To make django aware you can follow the following steps :

  1. Install a python library "whitenoise" pip install whitenoise
  2. In your settings.py , find the middleware and add the file at the end. The file will look like this MIDDLEWARE = ['', 'whitenoise.middleware.WhiteNoiseMiddleware',]
  3. On the same settings.py add STATIC_ROOT = BASE_DIR / 'production_files. This will be used by django to create a folder to store all its static files
  4. You're almost done , now run the following command to generate the folder we stated above py manage.py collectstatic
  5. Re start your server and you should be good to go

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Upvotes: 0

Stuart Dines
Stuart Dines

Reputation: 758

When DEBUG = True Django will serve static and media files. When DEBUG = False it will not. Therefore all of the js and css files will return a 404 error unless served. For a better of understanding of what is going on i would recommend reading https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/howto/static-files/ These static files may also be present in installed apps and not just within the project itself.

For local testing you can add the following to your urls.py urlpatterns:

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

static can be imported from from django.conf.urls.static import static

Further information can be found at https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/howto/static-files/#serving-files-uploaded-by-a-user-during-development

Further information regarding how to deploy static files in production can be found at https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/howto/static-files/deployment/

Upvotes: 1

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