Questions tagged [django-static]
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Differences between STATICFILES_DIR, STATIC_ROOT and MEDIA_ROOT
What are the differences of these three static url?
I am not sure if I am right, I am using the MEDIA_ROOT to store my uploaded photos (via models.ImageField())
However, I created a JS script to my admin and in admin.py. I defined the media as…
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How to refer to static files in my css files?
I have a reference inside my CSS file that refers to a static image:
#logo
{
background: url('/static/logo.png')
}
This works just fine on my dev machine but not on my production environment since the url should be…
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The STATICFILES_DIRS setting should not contain the STATIC_ROOT setting
I'm using Django 1.7. When deploying my site to a Production server and running collectstatic, I get following error message:
django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: The STATICFILES_DIRS setting should not contain the STATIC_ROOT setting
I…
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Invalid block tag: 'static'
Server returned
TemplateSyntaxError at /
Invalid block tag: 'static'
on this line: 
.
The whold html file is like this (it's an html file {% include %}ed by another one):
{% load staticfiles %}
.
The whold html file is like this (it's an html file {% include %}ed by another one):
{% load staticfiles %}
Yan Yang
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{% load static %} and {% load staticfiles %}: which is preferred?
I'm not sure what the difference is, it seems like both of them are working. I googled around, and seems like they are pretty much same thing.
Just out of curiosity, which one do people use in the field?
I read that but still don't know when to…
user5659156
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Static files won't load when out of debug in Django
I'm creating a Django project. I just tried taking the project out of debug, DEBUG = False and for some reason all my static files do not show up. They give an error code of 500. How do i fix this?
some of settings.py:
DEBUG = True
TEMPLATE_DEBUG =…
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Django static files won't load
i'm a Django newbie working on my first project and having a problem with static files.
I have created a simple auth system using django.contrib.auth consisting of two templates: mysite/templates/index.html and…
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Referencing image in CSS with relative path doesn't work in Django
I am using Django 1.3 with built-in static app.
My static folder structure is like this:
static/
css/
main.css
img/
js/
So I tried to reference images under static/css/img/ folder from CSS like…
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apache server cant find static files in Django project
I'm trying to upload my code on an apache server using mod_python. I have tried a lot but the server is not able to access my static files (all my images, js and css).
Here are my Virtualhost settings:
ServerName…
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Why isn't Django serving staticfiles in production?
I am wondering the reason why Django does not serve the statifiles in production, when DEGUB = False.
STATICFILES_DIRS
We specify STATICFILES_DIRS to tell Django where to look for staticfiles that are tied up to a specified app.
STATIC_ROOT
We…
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How to use node modules with Django?
I wish to use date-fns in my django project but not entirely sure how to proceed - I cannot rely on a CDN and need to somehow get it installed. I have run npm init in my root folder followed by npm install date-fns. This generated a node_modules…
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What is the use of {% load static %}?
I am doing the django tutorial on realpython https://realpython.com/get-started-with-django-1/
In one of the templates they add {% load static %} to load the static files for an app. In the same template they also load an image like this
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is there a way to add new skin in django-ckeditor?
I'm trying to add new skin in django-ckeditor but its doesnt work and it shows a blank screen in django-admin
I have installed the kama skin and extracted in static\ckeditor\ckeditor\skins\kama but doesnt seem to work.
Below im showing my ckeditor…
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Serve different Static files on devel and production in Django
I have a production and local DJANGO development environment. To push things to production we have a deployer which minifies and gzips all CSS and JS files.
To serve them on production I need to call them like
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Make Django compress with {% static %}
I'm trying to make django compress work but I believe it does not work because of my {% static %} use.
My template is (I'm using pyjade but doesn't matter):
- load staticfiles
- load compress
| {% compress css %}
link(rel="stylesheet", href="{%…
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