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Mentakatz
Mentakatz

Reputation: 745

How to ignore directories when running Django collectstatic?

I am running a small test project with Django 1.3, Ubuntu 11.10, gunicorn and Nginx, everything in a virtualenv, and now I'm running collectstatic to get my static files into the directory that Nginx serves from.

For simplicity's sake let's say my static directory is something like /home/user/static and my project is at /home/user/project

When I go to /home/user/project I run:

python manage.py collectstatic --noinput

and it correctly copies static files from all the apps I have installed. Unfortunately this also copies the files from Django's admin and I would like to skip that one.

I checked the documentation for collecstatic and there´s an -i (--ignore) parameter that takes a glob-style parameter so I tried different variations of the command, as I´m not sure if the ignore pattern refers to my /home/user/static or to the original app directory.

Here some examples that didn´t work:

python manage.py collectstatic --noinput -i /home/user/static/admin
python manage.py collectstatic --noinput -i /home/user/static/admin/*
python manage.py collectstatic --noinput -i /home/user/static/a*
python manage.py collectstatic --noinput -i /home/alexis/.virtualenvs/django13/*
python manage.py collectstatic --noinput -i /home/user/.virtualenvs/django13/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/admin*

I found that if I create a symbolic link from /home/user/static/admin to /home/user/.virtualenvs/django13/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/media collectstatic will notice and skip copying those files again but anyway, I´d like to make the --ignore option work as it should.

What am I missing?

Thanks for the help!

Upvotes: 36

Views: 16443

Answers (3)

Jarad
Jarad

Reputation: 18943

I have a folder structure like this:

my_project
└─content
| └─static
|   └─content
|     ├─css
|     ├─dist
|     ├─js
|     ├─scss

I want to exclude the scss folder and all files in it.

I document all the things I tried below.

Here are the commands that DON'T work:

"python manage.py collectstatic --no-input --ignore /content/static/content/scss"
"python manage.py collectstatic --no-input --ignore /content/static/content/scss/"
"python manage.py collectstatic --no-input --ignore /content/static/content/scss/*"
"python manage.py collectstatic --no-input --ignore content/static/content/scss"
"python manage.py collectstatic --no-input --ignore content/static/content/scss/"
"python manage.py collectstatic --no-input --ignore content/static/content/scss/*"
"python manage.py collectstatic --no-input --ignore /content/scss"
"python manage.py collectstatic --no-input --ignore /content/scss/"
"python manage.py collectstatic --no-input --ignore /content/scss/*"
"python manage.py collectstatic --no-input --ignore content/scss"
"python manage.py collectstatic --no-input --ignore content/scss/"

Here are the commands that DO work:

"python manage.py collectstatic --no-input --ignore content/scss/*" <- best
"python manage.py collectstatic --no-input --ignore content/scss*"

The absolute key to understanding this is to read this ten times:

You need to find the path from static directories, not project root.

Source

The take-away is:

  • you don't need a leading forward slash at the start of the path
  • the path is relative from your static directories

Upvotes: -1

Mark Chackerian
Mark Chackerian

Reputation: 23582

The Django 2.2 release has finally addressed the very longstanding issue of specifying ignore parameters with path matching, for example

manage.py collectstatic --ignore /vendor/*.js

should then work.

Upvotes: 12

gokmen
gokmen

Reputation: 597

Don't write full path of directories. For example usage:

python manage.py collectstatic --noinput -i admin

This command won't copy the admin/ directory to STATIC_ROOT path.

Upvotes: 45

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