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pythonhtmlcssdjangohttp-status-code-500
vanax
vanax

Reputation: 47

Django 500 Error page doesn't load CSS file

The 500 error handler template won't load CSS even if typed everything correctly. For example, my home template loads CSS properly using the same method Here's the 500.html template

    <html>
        <head>
            {%load static%}
            <meta charset="utf-8">
            <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
            <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
        
            <title>500</title>
        
            <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{% static 'style.css' %}"/>
        
        </head>
        
        <body>
         html code here
        </body>
        
        </html>

This should load the style.css file from the static folder

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{% static 'style.css' %}"/>

In the terminal it looks like everything is OK, but it still doesn't load.

"GET /static/style.css HTTP/1.1" 200 734

if I try to access 127.0.0.1:8000/static/main.css (the one for the homepage) it shows it how it should

if I try to access 127.0.0.1:8000/static/style.css it gives me an error

I don't know if it matters but I'm doing this with DEBUG = False

Edit: I solved the error by running the server with py manage.py runserver --insecure At this point I wonder how could I get around this if I wanted to host the website on a server? Why doesn't it load static files for error pages without running the server like that?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 916

Answers (3)

Rahul Sinha
Rahul Sinha

Reputation: 91

Keep DEBUG=TRUE in setting.py

Documentation: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.2/ref/settings/

Static files are served via Django on when DEBUG is True.

Upvotes: 0

Micka&#235;l Martinez
Micka&#235;l Martinez

Reputation: 1843

The manage.py runserver command starts the Django development server, a server which it is not intended to be used in production and which, as a result, stops to serve the static files when DEBUG=FALSE.

As you point out in your edit, you can bypass this security by using the --insecure option when you start the server (see the documentation here). But this is clearly an insecure and inefficient solution.

So you can serve the static files with a real HTTP server (some examples and tutorials are given here) or you can have a look to the very popular WhiteNoise application to help you doing that.

Upvotes: 3

zaman
zaman

Reputation: 123

this is usually i render django template tags : {% load static %}. sometimes pay attention to spaces. and also, I include static on the top of the page.

Upvotes: 0

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