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carousallie
carousallie

Reputation: 873

Django serving static files even with Debug off and no web server set to serve

Based on all I've read in the docs and on various s/o questions, Django cannot serve static files in production (when DEBUG = False) and they have to be served by a web server. Yet, when I run my code my static files are showing up just fine even with debug turned off. This concerns because as we move to production, I can't imagine it will continue to serve those files without me setting it up so they're served by a web server and I don't want my dev environment to not give me an accurate picture of how it will work in production.

How is it possible that my app is serving static files without a web server with DEBUG = False? I've included the relevant blurbs in my settings.py file, urls.py file, and my command to collectstatic in my Dockerfile. It also serves the static files just fine when I have RUN python manage.py collectstatic and STATIC_ROOT commented out.

urls.py

urlpatterns = [
                  path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
              ] + static(settings.STATIC_URL, document_root=settings.STAT)

if settings.DEBUG:
    urlpatterns += static(settings.STATIC_URL, document_root=settings.STATIC_ROOT)

settings.py

STAT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static')
DEBUG = False
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATICFILES_DIRS = [STAT]
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'prod_static')

Dockerfile

RUN python manage.py collectstatic --noinput

Upvotes: 1

Views: 162

Answers (1)

DiogoMarques
DiogoMarques

Reputation: 66

Django is serving all contents of 'static' folder because of this definition:

] + static(settings.STATIC_URL, document_root=settings.STAT)

The command collectstatic does not need this definition, as it searches for all folders present in STATICFILES_DIRS and copies all static assets to your STATIC_ROOT.

Also, you should change this:

if settings.DEBUG:
    urlpatterns += static(settings.STATIC_URL, document_root=settings.STAT)

Like this, on development you are serving static folder with django and on production you will need a web server to serve prod_static folder.

Upvotes: 2

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