I wrote css file and then save it all changes happen and when I run collect static command and then I again change css files no changes displayed on browser nothing happen at all.
It may be due to cache problem. So, you can try this on your browser which will reload from start:
Ctrl + R
I would suggest to double check the settings.py if the STATICFILES_DIRS and STATIC_URL is declared there. An example below-
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATICFILES_DIRS = [
'static',
]
MEDIA_URL = '/media/'
MEDIA_ROOT = 'media'
Then create a static folder and media folder where manage.py file is located. Then run the python3 manage.py collectstatic. Hope it works.
It is due to catch problem.
ctrl +f5
Is the solution
I have just started to use ManifestStaticFilesStorage and I am running into a problem I do not understand.
Firstly, if I prepare and run the website without ManifestStaticFilesStorage, then everything displays properly. Within the browser I can for example, see a link to an image and if I follow that it shows the image in a resource box:
Next, I add the following line of code into settings
STATICFILES_STORAGE = 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.ManifestStaticFilesStorage'
and I also have:
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "static")
I then delete the static directory and rebuild everything (migrations, collect static).
This produces a website with the following link to an image, but the resource is not visible:
However, when I go into the static folder in my project and look at the directory, I can see the file clearly and as far as I can tell, it appears normal:
It's like Django is failing to link up correctly when I use ManifestStaticFilesStorage.
I have included some other settings that may be relevant:
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
# STATIC_ROOT = 'static'
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "static")
STATICFILES_DIRS = [
'./ebdjango/static/',
]
I'm new to this, so if you have any suggestions on how to proceed with the cache in Django, please let me know.
Many thanks
Mark
I'm working in a development environment with debug = True on Windows 10.
I have installed node and npm and run npm microm from the main folder of my project. It created a node_modules subfolder with a microm folder inside, among others. so the microm.js script is located in:
f:\roomtemp\node_modules\microm\microm.js
The relevant portion of my Settings file is:
BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
...
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'node_modules')
My template contains the following:
{% load staticfiles %}
<script src='{% static "/microm/microm.js" %}'></script>
When I attempt to load the page, the Chrome console shows a 404 and I see this in the server console:
"GET /static/microm/microm.js HTTP/1.1" 404 1661
I have read many SO questions that seem to contain the solution but none have worked so far. I've also searched high and wide on the internet. No luck so far. Any help would be much appreciated.
Mike
First of all I don't think you should STATIC_ROOT at your node_modules folder. STATIC_ROOT is where the django management commant collectstatic will put all the static files from all the apps into when you are readying for deploying. This process may result in some files being overwritten.
Please restore STATIC_URL to some sane value like
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(BASE_DIR), 'static')
Then use the STATICFILES_DIRS setting. This is what tells django what extra locations to look for static files.
STATICFILES_DIRS = [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'node_modules')]
Finally, make sure that your STATICFILES_FINDERS has these
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
I have a project that has been running just fine for about 6 months. Static files have been working perfectly, and everything is great. I have my static files located in a folder as so:
/var/www/html/static/
In my settings.py file, I have the static section setup like so:
STATICFILES_DIRS = (
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "static"),
'/var/www/html/static/',
)
This has been working just fine.
However, I now want to move the static folder to a different location. Specifically, I want to move it inside the main project directory. My project is located at /var/www/html/shq/ so I want to have my static directory located at /var/www/html/shq/static/. I moved the folder, then updated my settings.py file to look like this:
STATICFILES_DIRS = (
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "static"),
'/var/www/html/shq/static/',
)
However, it didn't work. The Django project is still referencing the old location.
What am I missing here? Why isn't the Django project using the new location of /var/www/html/shq/static/?
EDIT
This is what the tail end of my settings.py file looks like:
119 STATICFILES_FINDERS = [
120 'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
121 'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
122 ]
123
124 STATIC_URL = '/static/'
125 STATIC_ROOT = '/var/www/html/collected_static/'
126 MEDIA_URL = '/media/'
127 MEDIA_ROOT = '/var/www/html/shq/media/'
128 STATICFILES_DIRS = [
129 os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "static"),
130 '/var/www/html/shq/static/',
131 ]
You might try doing something like this. I think it returns the list of directories that django looks for to find static files. Might help debugging.
from django.contrib.staticfiles import finders
from pprint import pprint
pprint(finders.find("", all=True))
Also, I may not be fully understanding your scenario, but you might confirm that the STATIC_ROOT is set to the location where you want to serve your static files (where your webserver will serve the files). The STATIC_DIRS setting tells collectstatic where to find static files, but the STATIC_ROOT is where collectstatic will actually place the files.
I figured it out. Not surprisingly, it was an easy fix once I figured it out.
It had nothing to do with my Django settings and everything to do with Apache.
Original
Alias /static/ /var/www/html/static/
So no matter what I did in my Django settings.py file, Apache was overriding that to send /static/ requested to the wrong directory.
New Apache Setting
Alias /static/ /var/www/html/shq/static/
Now the proper static files are being referenced. Hopefully this helps someone else in the future :)
I've been messing around with the new collectstatic command and have got it working for my normal pages. That is to say, I am able to load my css at this location http://localhost:8000/static/css/main.css. However, the css for my django admin doesn't seem to be showing up.
When I navigate to the admin css location at http://localhost:8000/static/admin/css/base.css, I'm getting a 404 page not found with the following error: /home/nai/GitProjects/cats/django-trunk/django/contrib/admin/media/css/base.css" does not exist. Looking in django-trunk, I never had the /home/nai/GitProjects/cats/django-trunk/django/contrib/admin/media/ folder to begin with.
Is that weird?
In any case, in my static folder, there is an admin folder with the accompanying css, img and js folders which was created when I ran collectstatic and the url of the base.css seems to be pointing to that location.
This is happening on my django development server. Here are some snippets to aid in the bug hunt:
urls
33 # In order for Dev Server to serve media files for the frontend site.
34 urlpatterns += staticfiles_urlpatterns()
35
36 try:
37 if settings.DEBUG: # defined in manage.py when the first arg is "runserver"
38 urlpatterns += patterns('',
39 (r'^media/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve',{'document_root': settings.MEDIA_ROOT}),
40 (r'^media-admin/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve',{'document_root': os.path.join(settings.MEDIA_ROOT, '..', settings.ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX)}),
41 )
42 except NameError:
43 pass
I think it might be something to do with line 40 in my URLS file but changing media-admin to static/admin didnt help.
settings
58 ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX = '/static/admin'
69 STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(os.path.abspath(os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT, '..', MEDIA_DIR, 'static')), '')
70
71 # URL prefix for static files.
72 # Example: "http://media.lawrence.com/static/"
73 STATIC_URL = '/static/'
74
75 # Additional locations of static files. Global files are stored in here
76 STATICFILES_DIRS = (
77 os.path.join(os.path.abspath(os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT, '..', 'proj_public', 'static', 'proj')), ''),
78 )
79
Django recommends that you deploy static files with a web server other than wsgi.
In settings.py, set:
STATIC_ROOT = 'static'
Run python manage.py collectstatic, which will copy the Django admin static files to /path/to/project/static/
Configure your static file server. If you use Nginx, you could add this config:
location /static/ {
alias /path/to/project/static/;
expires modified +1w;
}
Reload your web server
You should now have access to the static files.
In Django 1.4 ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX is deprecated. Here are the steps I followed to catch up with these somewhat recent Django changes:
in settings.py, add django.contrib.staticfiles to INSTALLED_APPS
in settings.py define STATIC_URL — the staticfiles app won't run without it. While using runserver they'll get handled magically, but when you deploy, this needs to be a location where those resources can be fetched by a browser.
I think that's all there was to it.
I'm using Django 1.4.3
What did NOT work for me:
No matter how much I edited ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX in settings.py I noticed no change in the HTML generated for the Django Admin pages. It always says /media/admin/base.css when I view the source.
What DID work for me.
Copied the 'admin' folder from /django/contrib/admin/static/ and pasted it into my projects 'media' folder
Now it works great.
It seems dumb, but I actually had this exact issue and the solution was to set DEBUG=False to DEBUG=True on my local dev environment. When debug is set to False, it thinks it's in a production environment which relies on a place to put static files, such as /var/www/html/static, whereas the debug set to True just uses the local directory.
Also make sure that AppDirectoriesFinder is not commented, happens when you're trying to customize your own app structure. Unfortunatelly it's pointless to seek such information in official docs.
STATICFILES_FINDERS = [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
just change one thing in settings.py
DEBUG = False # not working if you are not serve your static files for production.
just change
DEBUG = True
You need a trailing slash in your ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX setting.
Change to:
ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX = '/static/admin/'
I'm using chef to auto-build my django server on an AWS Ubuntu server. This post helped, but what I wound up doing was to add the directory to the package admin static pages in a local_setings.py:
https://github.com/jaycrossler/geoq-chef-repo/blob/master/cookbooks/geoq/templates/default/local_settings.py.erb#L16
(added to local_settings.py or to settings.py):
STATICFILES_DIRS = ('<%= node['geoq']['virtualenv']['location'] %>/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/static/',)
This resulted in local_settings.py having:
STATICFILES_DIRS = ('/var/lib/geoq/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/static/',)
Note, that if you have other items already in your STATICFILES_DIRS, you might want to append to the list, rather than overwriting it.
in my project, the solution is in settings.py, set:
DEBUG = False # debug false mod not working css
One solution might be to add your local IP to the ALLOWED_HOSTS list in settings.py
e.g.
CURRENT_IP = '192.168.0.123'
ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['127.0.0.1', 'localhost', '0.0.0.0', CURRENT_IP]
you need
urlpatterns += static(settings.STATIC_URL, document_root=settings.STATIC_ROOT)
I don't know how it was resolved, but I took these steps when I encountered the same problem. I simply add these line in settings.py.
ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX = '/static/admin/'
STATICFILES_FINDERS = ( 'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder','django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder','compressor.finders.CompressorFinder', )
i hope this will help you all.
In settings.py
Don't use tuple for the
STATICFILES_DIRS =(
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static'),
)
you should use list,like this
STATICFILES_DIRS =[
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static'),
]