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A Django app that provides helpers for serving static files.

django-staticfiles is a Django app that provides helpers for serving static files.

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Why does DEBUG=False setting make my django Static Files Access fail?

Am building an app using Django as my workhorse. All has been well so far - specified db settings, configured static directories, urls, views etc. But trouble started sneaking in the moment I wanted to render my own beautiful and custom 404.html and…
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How to get a favicon to show up in my django app?

I just want to drop the favicon.ico in my staticfiles directory and then have it show up in my app. How can I accomplish this? I have placed the favicon.ico file in my staticfiles directory, but it doesn't show up and I see this in my log: 127.0.0.1…
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Django get the static files URL in view

I'm using reportlab pdfgen to create a PDF. In the PDF there is an image created by drawImage. For this I either need the URL to an image or the path to an image in the view. I managed to build the URL but how would I get the local path to the…
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STATIC_ROOT vs STATIC_URL in Django

I am confused by static root and want to clarify things. To serve static files in Django, the following should be in settings.py and urls.py: import os PROJECT_DIR=os.path.dirname(__file__) 1. Absolute path to the directory in which static files…
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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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What's the point of Django's collectstatic?

In Django, the convention is to put all of your static files (i.e css, js) specific to your app into a folder called static. So the structure would look like this: mysite/ manage.py mysite/ --> (settings.py, etc) myapp/ --> (models.py,…
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django 1.5 - How to use variables inside static tag

I'm currently migrating all the static files references in my project to the new {% static %} tag that django 1.5 introduced, but I'm having a problem, in some places I use variables to get the content. With the new tag I can't, is there any way to…
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How to override css in Django Admin?

I want to change certain css in admin django like base.css. Is it better to change directly in the django library? How can I override it in the best way?
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ValueError: Missing staticfiles manifest entry for 'favicon.ico'

I'm getting a ValueError when running python manage.py test. My project is named fellow_go, and I'm currently working on an App called pickup. Please note that this error is added in a relatively recent commit to Django: Fixed #24452 -- Fixed…
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Django won't refresh staticfiles

I have a JavaScript file referenced on a django template: I made some changes to that js file. Then, I refresh the page and I can't see the changes happen. If I remove the JavaScript from the…
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Unable to perform collectstatic

I am new to django ! When I use the command python manage.py collectstatic I get this error django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: You're using the staticfiles app without having set the STATIC_ROOT setting to a filesystem path But I can…
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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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Managing static files for multiple apps in Django

I am developing a Django (1.3) project composed of many applications. Each application has its own static files under its own static directory. Moreover, I have added a directory called project_static which should contain static files which are…
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Django serve static index.html with view at '/' url

I have my index.html in /static/ folder. My django app is running ok when i try: http://127.0.0.1:8000/index.html But i want to acces index.html by url: http://127.0.0.1:8000/ I wrote a view and it works: class IndexView(TemplateView): …
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Can I make STATICFILES_DIR same as STATIC_ROOT in Django 1.3?

I'm using Django 1.3 and I realize it has a collectstatic command to collect static files into STATIC_ROOT. Here I have some other global files that need to be served using STATICFILES_DIR. Can I make them use the same dir ? Thanks.
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