django static files with a different path - django

Question

I'm trying to make the local development work with everything under a /abc.
For example, instead of http://localhost:8080 I want everything to be at something like http://localhost:8080/abcd
I was able to achieve this by updating the url.py with the following:
urlpatterns = patterns('',
url(r'^abcd/admin/', include(admin.site.urls), name='admin'),
url(r'^abcd/search/?$', views.search, name='search'),
url(r'^abcd/$', views.index, name='root')
)
# Force Django to serve static assets, if this is not the production
if settings.PRODUCTION is False:
urlpatterns += patterns('', (
r'^abcd/static/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve', {
'document_root': settings.STATIC_ROOT
}
))
Now I can view the pages with http://localhost:8080/abcd but the rendering does not show up correctly because of the static files. I need the static files to be served at http://localhost:8080/abcd/static/ and for it to work with all the pages.
Is there a simple way to make it work? I tried doing the above and it doesn't seem to work. I'm super new to django so I don't fully understand how I can achieve what I'm trying to do. Any help from experts would be much appreciated.

Answer 1

It should work.
urlpatterns = patterns('',
url(r'^abcd/', views.index, name='root')
url(r'^abcd/admin/', include(admin.site.urls), name='admin'),
url(r'^abcd/search/?$', views.search, name='search')
)
# Force Django to serve static assets, if this is not the production
if settings.PRODUCTION is False:
urlpatterns += patterns('', (
r'^abcd/static/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve', {
'document_root': settings.STATIC_ROOT
}
))
change settings.py
STATIC_URL = '/abcd/static/'
STATICFILES_DIRS = [
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static')
]