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Reputation: 1019

How to tell Django staticfiles to not collect user uploaded media directory files?

I have a very simple question which I was not able to find an answer. Using Django staticfiles app, I call the statics collect routine by typing this command line : python manage.py collectstatic.

My problem is that I've several applications serving statics + a media directory containing user-uploaded files. Django copies all the files to the static directory, including media files!

I just would like Django to not copy user-uploaded files to the static directory when I call python manage.py collectstatic. Does anyone have an idea? Tried --ignore option but without success...

Thank you in advance.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 2144

Answers (2)

Pavel Shvedov
Pavel Shvedov

Reputation: 1314

That was a problem of django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder, try removing that from STATICFILES_FINDERS.

Upvotes: 6

arie
arie

Reputation: 18982

So what exactly doesn't work if you use --ignore?

Though the real solution is not to mix user generated content and static files.

If you keep both types separated you can easily put your static files under version control and don't have to deal with excludes on this front as well. And in fact the separation from media (user generated) and static files is the rationale behind staticfiles:

In previous versions of Django, it was common to place static assets in MEDIA_ROOT along with user-uploaded files, and serve them both at MEDIA_URL. Part of the purpose of introducing the staticfiles app is to make it easier to keep static files separate from user-uploaded files.

The docs on this topic are really comprehensive: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/static-files/

Upvotes: 0

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