I recently started a basic django project, i want to load an already made default template. This template has an assets folder with all the CSS, JS files etc
This folder, is later called in the templates, so for example i can have:
<base href="../">
// And a lot of static files being called like this:
<link href="./assets/scrollbar/css/scrollbar.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<link href="./assets/somecss.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
// And so on..
<script src="./assets/somejsfile.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
The problem with this is that none of the files in the assets are being retrieved. I know that the problem depends on where i put the assets folder, but i don't know how to solve that. I tried to add it to different parts of my project's structure but it doesn't work, since i only get a lot of errors like this:
http://127.0.0.1:8000/assets/somecss.css net::ERR_ABORTED 404 (Not Found)
Here is my settings.py:
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
In this static folder, there is a basic css file i tested before trying this.
And here is the structure of my project:
//MAIN FOLDER
migrations
ASSETS
templates -> INDEX.HTML (where the assets folder is called)
views, forms etc
Have you read the documentation on this?
It is recommended to use the static template tag to make the filesystem location of your static files independent from your URLs. Using this tag, your URLs would have to be defined like this:
{% load static %}
<link href="{% static 'assets/scrollbar/css/scrollbar.css' %}"
rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<link href="{% static 'assets/somecss.css' %}"
rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
You also need to define the setting STATICFILES_DIRS because it looks like your static assets are not inside a default location inside an app of your project.
I thought it would be easier to download bootstrap and adjust it to my code, instead of messing about a cdn. So I downloaded bootstrap and my directory looks like this.
My static directory is properly (I think) setup since my style.css and maps.js are working fine.
In my base.html I reference the files with:
The old way <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css" integrity="sha384-BVYiiSIFeK1dGmJRAkycuHAHRg32OmUcww7on3RYdg4Va+PmSTsz/K68vbdEjh4u" crossorigin="anonymous">
<link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' href="{% static 'style.css' %}" />
<script src="{% static 'maps.js' %}"></script>
<script src="{% static 'bootstrap-3.3.7' %}"></script>
The static boostrap-3.3.7 is not working. The cdn worked however. My question is how would my static import look to have this setup with the bootstrap directory properly work?
I'm sorry if it's a stupid question.
You are trying to include a complete directory into your HTML, which is impossible. You should adjust the path in {% static 'bootstrap-3.3.7' %} to the location of the actual file you need.
<script src="{% static 'bootstrap-3.3.7/dist/js/boostrap.min.js' %}"></script>
Note, don't forget to add the css file too, you need to include them both individually. Which will probably be:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{% static 'bootstrap-3.3.7/dist/css/boostrap.min.css' %}"/>
I am pretty new to Django and I am trying to put static files in my site but I am unable to do so. I am getting 404 when the browser tries to GET my static files
I'm not sure of the best practices or the correct way for Django to find these static files
Here is a picture of my project structure:
Here is my settings.py:
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATICFILES_DIRS = (
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "static"),
)
In my index.html I have a line:
<link href="{{ STATIC_URL }}boothie.css" rel="stylesheet">
<script src="{{ STATIC_URL }}boothie.js"></script>
<script src="{{ STATIC_URL }}jquery.js.1.3.js"></script>
I think this would work:
{% load staticfiles %}
<link href="{% static "css/boothie.css" %}" rel="stylesheet">
<script src="{% static "js/boothie.js" %}"></script>
<script src="{% static "js/jquery.js.1.3.js" %}"></script>
See: Configuring static files
Edit:
You can maintain static files which belong to your home app with the structure like this:
home/
static/
css/
images/
js/
While deploying, you can set STATIC_ROOT to where you want to serve these static files, then run python manage.py collectstatic, django will copy your static files into the STATIC_ROOT directory and you can maintain static files easier (in a single directory) without changing your code.
static_url will give the relative path ....
You may have to include
<link href="{% static "css/boothie.css" %}" rel="stylesheet">
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.
when i try to include js files in my template, as opposed to css files - django can't point the browser to the static folder...
this is the relevant part in my settings.py -
STATIC_ROOT = '/var/www/html/static/'
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATICFILES_DIRS = (
os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'static').replace('\\','/'),
)
from within my template, when i'm calling css files as in the following example -
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{% static 'bootstrap/css/bootstrap.css' %}" />
they get loaded just fine -
"GET /static/bootstrap/css/bootstrap.css HTTP/1.1" 200 127343
yet, when i try to load js files like so -
<script type="text/javascript" src="{% static '/bootstrap/js/jquery.js' %}"></script>
the request gets broken, and in the runserver terminal window i get errors like -
"GET /bootstrap/js/jquery.js HTTP/1.1" 404 2848
showing that the 'static' part of the url gets dropped out...
anyone has an idea as for why this is happening? thanks a lot everyone!
I usually use:
<a href="{{ STATIC_URL }}path/to/file">
So:
<script type="text/javascript" src="{{ STATIC_URL }}bootstrap/js/jquery.js"></script>
and this works for js files fine. So maybe try this as opposed to the {% static %} tag to see if it works.