CODEWITHSUNDEEP
django
user469652
user469652

Reputation: 51361

Django 1.3: Can't access static files after trun off DEBUG

This is very very weird.

On my dev machine, everything seems fine when I set DEBUG=True, but If I turn it off, it then breaks.

I can see the requested URLs are exactly same. What are the possible reasons for this?

 In url

+ static("static", document_root= STATIC_ROOT )

The STATIC_ROOT is the absolute path to static folder, it's all right, cost it works when debug is turned on.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 818

Answers (2)

shanyu
shanyu

Reputation: 9726

From Django docs regarding serving static files in development:

This will only work if DEBUG is True.

That's because this view is grossly inefficient and probably insecure. This is only intended for local development, and should never be used in production.

In short, if you are using devserver and DEBUG is False, static files won't be served.

Upvotes: 3

user469652
user469652

Reputation: 51361

While I fixed this by replace that url config by

url(r'^static/(?P.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve', { 'document_root': STATIC_ROOT }),

But I want to know why?

Upvotes: 1

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