I want to add a static file to my django project app.
My app is named "core"
Hence inside the app where I need the static file (called main.css) , I made a directory named static/core/main.css
So after that my directory looks like this
core
....
-static
|_core
|_main.css
.........
And in the settings.py file , I wrote this
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static')
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
And in the html file where I want the static css I wrote this
{% load static %}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title>{% block title %} Welcome | Ecommerce {% endblock %}</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bulma#0.9.1/css/bulma.min.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="{% static 'core/main.css' %}">
This HTML file is located in a global project level template folder where I dump the templates from all the apps in the project .
But my static file is not getting loaded for some reason
May be because you didn't specify the file?
I guess you should change it from
<link rel="stylesheet" href="{% static '' %}">
To
<link rel="stylesheet" href="{% static 'core/main.css' %}">
Try to add
STATICFILES_DIRS = [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static')]
into your Django settings
In Your settings.py file add this
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
if DEBUG:
STATICFILES_DIRS = [
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static')
]
else:
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static')
after that open the terminal in your root directory and run the following command
python manage.py collectstatic
you can also refer to the django documentation where they have explained about staticfiles in django https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.2/ref/contrib/staticfiles/
what ever i try to do i can't get the favicon to show up, when i look it up in the view source tab it loads up but won't appear in the tab icon position.
i'm importing it in the html like so:
{% load static %}
<link rel="stylesheet" href="{% static "css/index.css" %}"/>
<link rel="Favicon" type="image/png" href="{% static 'images/icon.png' %}"/>
i set the django staticfile_dirs like so:
STATICFILES_DIRS = [
os.path.join('static'),
os.path.join('static/images'),
]
Try .ico format instead of .png format and rel="shortcut icon" or rel="icon"
The value of the rel="…" attribute should be icon [mdn webdocs], not Favicon:
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="{% static 'images/icon.png' %}"/>
If your image loads in the browser, you need to have the favicon link be rel="icon" rather than rel="Favicon".
See Do you have to include <link rel="icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />?
Additionally, you can add a URL route called "favicon.ico" that returns your file.
If your image doesn't load, there is a problem with your static asset serving: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/static-files/
<script src="./home/static/js/2.d754fc32.chunk.js"></script>
Currently my html file points to this. What static variable django setting.py do I declare to make the HTML point to
<script src="./home/static/static/js/2.d754fc32.chunk.js"></script>
currently in setting.py
STATICFILES_DIRS = [
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, '../frontend/build')
]
STATIC_ROOT = '/var/www/web/home/static/'
STATIC_URL = 'home/static/'
My build folder contains a static file inside as well.
if STATICFILES_DIR is in the right place:
You just have to {% load 'static' %} on the top of your html (after extend), and to set the css file:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{% static '/style.css' %}">
if you want a img from there would be:
<img src="{% static '<PathOfImage>/img.png' %}">
I'm not doing anything fancy. Just trying to get my static files to work using python manage.py runserver with Debug = True
'django.contrib.staticfiles' is installed.
These are my static settings:
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATICFILES_DIRS = (
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "static"),
)
Here is my template syntax:
{% load staticfiles %}
<title>Dashboard</title>
<!-- Bootstrap Core CSS -->
<link href="{% static "boostrap/bower_components/bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css" %}"
rel="stylesheet">
<!-- MetisMenu CSS -->
<link href="{% static "boostrap/bower_components/metisMenu/dist/metisMenu.min.css" %}"
rel="stylesheet">
<!-- Timeline CSS -->
<link href="{% static "boostrap/dist/css/timeline.css" %}" rel="stylesheet">
<!-- Custom CSS -->
<link href="{% static "boostrap/dist/css/sb-admin-2.css" %}" rel="stylesheet">
<!-- Morris Charts CSS -->
<link href="{% static "boostrap/bower_components/morrisjs/morris.css" %}" rel="stylesheet">
<!-- Custom Fonts -->
<link href="
{% static "boostrap/bower_components/font-awesome/css/font-awesome.min.css" %}" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
findstatic can successfully locate these files when entered exactly as they are in the template:
(AlmondKing) C:\Projects\AlmondKing>python manage.py findstatic bootstrap/bower_components/bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css --verbosity 2
Found 'bootstrap/bower_components/bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css' here:
C:\Projects\AlmondKing\AlmondKing\static\bootstrap\bower_components\bootstrap\dist\css\bootstrap.min.css
Looking in the following locations:
C:\Projects\AlmondKing\AlmondKing\static
C:\Users\Adam\Envs\AlmondKing\lib\site-packages\django\contrib\admin\static
My URLS have no conflict:
ROOT URLS:
urlpatterns = [
url(r'^', include('AlmondKing.AKGenius.urls', namespace="AKGenius")),
url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
url(r'^purchases/', include('AlmondKing.InventoryLogs.urls', namespace="purchases")),
url(r'^company/', include('AlmondKing.FinancialLogs.urls',namespace="company")),
]
AKGenius URLS:
urlpatterns = [
url(r'^$', TemplateView.as_view(template_name='home.html'), name="home"),
url(r'^dashboard/$', TemplateView.as_view(template_name='control_panel.html'), name="dashboard"),
url(r'^support/$', 'AlmondKing.AKGenius.views.support'),
]
and the paths seem to be rendering correctly to the browser:
<!-- Bootstrap Core CSS -->
<link href="/static/boostrap/bower_components/bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css"
rel="stylesheet">
And yes, I've restarted runserver since my last settings change.
What could be causing these to 404? Would it have something to do with Windows?
And as a proper answer in case anybody else comes across this post at a later date:
Looks like there's a typo in each line, where
{% static "boostrap
should be
{% static "bootstrap
I just want to drop the favicon.ico in my staticfiles directory and then have it show up in my app.
How can I accomplish this?
I have placed the favicon.ico file in my staticfiles directory, but it doesn't show up and I see this in my log:
127.0.0.1 - - [21/Feb/2014 10:10:53] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 -
If I go to http://localhost:8000/static/favicon.ico, I can see the favicon.
If you have a base or header template that's included everywhere why not include the favicon there with basic HTML?
<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/png" href="{% static 'favicon.ico' %}"/>
One lightweight trick is to make a redirect in your urls.py file, e.g. add a view like so:
from django.views.generic.base import RedirectView
favicon_view = RedirectView.as_view(url='/static/favicon.ico', permanent=True)
urlpatterns = [
...
re_path(r'^favicon\.ico$', favicon_view),
...
]
This works well as an easy trick for getting favicons working when you don't really have other static content to host.
In template file
{% load static %}
Then within <head> tag
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="{% static 'favicon.ico' %}">
This assumes that you have static files configured appropiately in settings.py.
Note: older versions of Django use load staticfiles, not load static.
Universal solution
You can get the favicon showing up in Django the same way you can do in any other framework: just use pure HTML.
Add the following code to the header of your HTML template.
Better, to your base HTML template if the favicon is the same across your application.
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="{% static 'favicon/favicon.png' %}"/>
The previous code assumes:
You have a folder named 'favicon' in your static folder
The favicon file has the name 'favicon.png'
You have properly set the setting variable STATIC_URL
You can find useful information about file format support and how to use favicons in this article of Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon.
I can recommend use .png for universal browser compatibility.
EDIT:
As posted in one comment,
"Don't forget to add {% load staticfiles %} in top of your template file!"
In your settings.py add a root staticfiles directory:
STATICFILES_DIRS = [
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static')
]
Create /static/images/favicon.ico
Add the favicon to your template(base.html):
{% load static %}
<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/png" href="{% static 'images/favicon.ico' %}"/>
And create a url redirect in urls.py because browsers look for a favicon in /favicon.ico
from django.contrib.staticfiles.storage import staticfiles_storage
from django.views.generic.base import RedirectView
urlpatterns = [
...
path('favicon.ico', RedirectView.as_view(url=staticfiles_storage.url('images/favicon.ico')))
]
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="{% static 'favicon/favicon.ico' %}"/>
Just add that in ur base file like first answer but ico extension and add it to the static folder
First
Upload your favicon.ico to your app static path， or the path you configured by STATICFILES_DIRS in settings.py
Second
In app base template file:
{% load static %}
<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/png" href="{% static 'favicon.ico' %}"/>
You can make apps use different favicon.ico files here.
Addition
In project/urls.py
from django.templatetags.static import static # Not from django.conf.urls.static
from django.views.generic.base import RedirectView
Add this path to your urlpatterns base location
path('favicon.ico', RedirectView.as_view(url=static('favicon.ico'))),
This can let installed app(like admin, which you should not change the templates) and the app you forget modify the templates , also show a default favicon.ico
if you have permission then
Alias /favicon.ico /var/www/aktel/workspace1/PyBot/PyBot/static/favicon.ico
add alias to your virtual host. (in apache config file ) similarly for robots.txt
Alias /robots.txt /var/www/---your path ---/PyBot/robots.txt
I tried the following settings in django 2.1.1
base.html
<head>
{% load static %}
<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/png" href="{% static 'images/favicon.ico' %}"/>
</head>
settings.py
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static')
STATIC_URL = '/static/'` <br>`.............
Project directory structure
view live here
<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/png" href="{% static 'favicon/sample.png' %}" />
Also run: python manage.py collectstatic
The best solution is to override the Django base.html template. Make another base.html template under admin directory. Make an admin directory first if it does not exist. app/admin/base.html.
Add {% block extrahead %} to the overriding template.
{% extends 'admin/base.html' %}
{% load staticfiles %}
{% block javascripts %}
{{ block.super }}
<script type="text/javascript" src="{% static 'app/js/action.js' %}"></script>
{% endblock %}
{% block extrahead %}
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="{% static 'app/img/favicon.ico' %}" />
{% endblock %}
{% block stylesheets %}
{{ block.super }}
{% endblock %}
Came across this while looking for help. I was trying to implement the favicon in my Django project and it was not showing -- wanted to add to the conversation.
While trying to implement the favicon in my Django project I renamed the 'favicon.ico' file to 'my_filename.ico' –– the image would not show. After renaming to 'favicon.ico' resolved the issue and graphic displayed. below is the code that resolved my issue:
<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/png" href="{% static 'img/favicon.ico' %}" />
Best practices :
Contrary to what you may think, the favicon can be of any size and of any image type. Follow this link for details.
Not putting a link to your favicon can slow down the page load.
In a django project, suppose the path to your favicon is :
myapp/static/icons/favicon.png
in your django templates (preferably in the base template), add this line to head of the page :
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="{% static 'icons/favicon.png' %}">
Note :
We suppose, the static settings are well configured in settings.py.
Just copy your favicon on:
/yourappname/mainapp(ex:core)/static/mainapp(ex:core)/img
Then go to your mainapp template(ex:base.html)
and just copy this, after {% load static %} because you must load first the statics.
<link href="{% static 'core/img/favi_x.png' %}" rel="shortcut icon" type="image/png" />
Now(in 2020),
You could add a base tag in html file.
<head>
<base href="https://www.example.com/static/">
</head>
Sometimes restarting the server helps.
Stop the server and then rerun the command: python manage.py runserver
Now your CSS file should be loaded.