I've fired up a new Django 1.8 project and am hitting the wall of trying to serve static files in the development environment. I'm pretty sure I've followed the docs explicitly, but it's just not working.
Settings.py
STATICFILES_DIR = (
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static/'),
BASE_DIR
)
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATIC_ROOT = '/srv/www/cpm2/static/'
urls.py:
from django.conf.urls import include, patterns, url
from django.conf import settings
from django.conf.urls.static import static·
from django.contrib import admin
from django.views.generic import TemplateView
urlpatterns = [
url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
url(r'^test/', TemplateView.as_view(template_name="basics/base.html")),
] + static(settings.STATIC_URL, document_root=settings.STATIC_ROOT)
templates/basics/base.html:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
{% load staticfiles %}
<link href="{% static 'css/bootstrap.css' %}" rel="stylesheet">
</head>
<body>
<h1>Hello, world!</h1>
</body>
</html>
When I go to http://my_server_ip:8000/test/ none of the CSS is loaded. Viewing the page source, I see this where that CSS link is <link href="/static/css/bootstrap.css" rel="stylesheet"> which is good, but when I try to follow that link directly, it fails giving me a 404 error.
Now, I've set up my Apache server to serve the files directly, they work. So, going to http://my_server_ip/static/css/bootstrap.css works - so I know the files are readable. It's just they don't work in development.
What am I doing wrong? As so many others before me, I'm pulling my hair out!
EDIT Trying to access the file directly gives me this:
Page not found (404)
Request Method: GET
Request URL: http://my_server_ip:8000/static/css/bootstrap.css
Raised by: django.views.static.serve
'css/bootstrap.css' could not be found
You're seeing this error because you have DEBUG = True in your Django settings file. Change that to False, and Django will display a standard 404 page.
It doesn't even show a list of places its tried, just that the file isn't found.
You are missing an 's' from STATICFILES_DIRS.
Also, you shouldn't be including your BASE_DIR in that setting - that could end up serving all your python code, which would be a bad idea.
Related
I have my Django app running on a development server. The HTML templates are serving fine but I'm really having a lot of trouble getting the static files to serve. I've tried lots of ideas from Stack Overflow but not getting anywhere.
I just get a 404 error on the image.
Can anyone help me please?
My urls.py is:
from django.contrib import admin
from django.urls import path
from app import views
from django.contrib.auth import views as auth_views
from django.conf.urls.static import static
from django.conf import settings
from django.contrib.staticfiles.urls import staticfiles_urlpatterns
# The rest of my urls here...
urlpatterns = [
path('', views.index, name='index'),
path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
] + static(settings.STATIC_URL, document_root=settings.STATIC_ROOT)
my settings has included:
STATIC_ROOT = "/home/me/django-test/djangoproject/static"
STATIC_URL = 'static/'
and my template has:
<!doctype html>
{% load static %}
<img src="{% static 'e.png'%}">
It worked for me in django 3.2.
For local static you should create folder called "static" in your config folder
config it's folder created when you start project(may be you call it mysite or smth):
django-admin startproject config
create a "static" folder in the same folder where you have the file settings.py
#In settings.py:
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
# folder for static when you deploy your project on server(not for local develop)
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static')
# local (in config for runserver)
STATICFILES_DIRS = [
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "config/static"),
]
Inside folder "static" place your css, js, img e.t.c folders
In our templates you have to do something like this:
<!DOCTYPE html>
{% load static %}
<html lang="ru">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="{% static 'css_custom/base_style.css' %}"/>
<title>{% block title %}TITLE{% endblock title %}</title>
</head>
Pay attention to my template tag
href="{% static 'css_custom/base_style.css' %}"
that means i load static from:
config/static/css_custom/base_style.css
Same thing for load image, in you template.html:
{% extends '_base.html' %}
{% load static %}
{% block content %}
<img src="{% static 'images/Bg.jpg' %}" alt="">
{% endblock content %}
that means static from:
config/static/images/Bg.jpg
or you can add relative path into your style.css for some classes like:
.header-home {
height: 40vh;
background-image: url("../images/Bg.jpg");
background-size: cover;
background-position: center;
text-align: center;
}
Hope it helps you
I was trying to load a static file i.e my CSS in django and i am doing evrything taught in tutorial but it isn't happening. i have my CSS inside static folder.
{% load static %}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{% static 'main.css' %}">
<title> Django </title>
</head>
<body>
<header>
<div>
<nav id="a1">
Home
About
Contact
Courses
</nav>
</div>
</header>
Here, is my settings.py file as i was following tutorial,
settings.py
STATIC_URL = 'static/'
STATICFILES_DIR=[
BASE_DIR,"static"
]
IN settings.py
STATIC_URL = 'static/'
STATICFILES_DIRS = [
os.path.join(BASE_DIR,'static')
]
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'assets')
IN urls.py
from django.conf.urls import url
from django.conf import settings
from django.views.static import serve
urlpatterns = [
url(r'^static/(?P<path>.*)$', serve, {"document_root":settings.STATIC_ROOT}),
]
If your DEBUG is False then you need to run python manage.py collectstatic
It is exactly how it sounds. My main goal is to make the css file work with django template so I can design my templates.
Yesterday I tried and initially my folder structure was wrong. I placed static folder in myapp folder. Didn't work. I tried putting it in templates folder. It only worked when I had 2 static folders both in myapp and templates folder. Realized it isn't a working solution.
I placed a single static folder with a css file in it in mysite folder, at the same level with myapp folder and everything seemed to work. Satisfied I left at that.
Today I came back to it and it stopped working. It seems to be frozen. Not responding to the new codes. Old colors are showing but new colors aren't, which is odd. Tried changing the old colors, it won't change. Literally my css file has a class name .intro where I changed the color from purple to red, my template still showing purple which I set yesterday.
My template shows no error and all the texts and divs I am adding are updating with no issue.Kind of lost where I may have gone wrong. Certainly don't want to work with 2/3 same css file and static folder if I can help it.
Here are some codes.
My folder structure-
Everytime I update the css and refresh the template my console is showing some kind of error, here they are-
Settings.py file seems correct. Here is the relevant part-
import os
SETTINGS_PATH = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__))
...
...
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATICFILES_DIRS = (
os.path.join(BASE_DIR,'static'),
)
STATIC_ROOT= os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'staticfiles')
my base.html -
{% load static %}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<title>Document</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{% static 'ok.css' %}"/>
</head>
<body>
{% block content %}
<h2 class="ok">This is a test</h2>
<div class="solved">This took a while!</div>
<div class="container">Didn't work on the other site!</div>
{% endblock content %}
</body>
</html>
and test.html -
{% extends "myapp/base.html" %}
{% block content %}
<h2 class="again">Content for My App</h2>
<p class="intro">Stuff etc etc.</p>
<p class="ok">write some more</p>
<div class="container">This should work</div>
{% endblock %}
URLs.py even though I think I am doing ok there -
from django.urls import path
from . import views
urlpatterns = [
path('', views.index, name='index'),
path('base/', views.ok, name='base'),
path('test/', views.test, name='test')
]
And finally views.py , another page I don't think have any issues -
from django.shortcuts import render
from django.http import HttpResponse
def index(request):
context = {}
return render(request, 'myapp/index.html')
def ok(request):
return render(request, 'myapp/base.html')
def test(request):
return render(request, 'myapp/test.html')
If you can spot anything kindly let me know. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
My website favicon icons are no longer found. It is a simple Django website with bootstrap. It was working a few minutes ago, I tried changing the whole boot strap code.
The log i am getting when the django server is running and I use the users profile:
Not Found: /favicon.ico
[06/Feb/2021 08:53:13] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 4502
Session data corrupted
This is were the bootstrap static is coming though in the page:
{% load static %}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<!-- Required meta tags -->
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no">
<!-- Bootstrap CSS -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.0.0/css/bootstrap.min.css" integrity="sha384-Gn5384xqQ1aoWXA+058RXPxPg6fy4IWvTNh0E263XmFcJlSAwiGgFAW/dAiS6JXm" crossorigin="anonymous">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
href="{% static 'blog/main.css' %}">
Most browsers look for the existence of an file called favicon.ico at the root path of your website domain, this controls the icon for the website you can see in your bookmarks folder or the address bar of your browser.
If you don't have one, then it's valid that it would return a Not Found error.
When you deploy to something like Apache, you will have to alias your favicon in a config file. However, while running Django in development mode, the following works
urls.py
from django.views.generic import RedirectView
from django.urls import path
urlpatterns=[
...
path('favicon.ico',RedirectView.as_view(url='/static/images/favicon.ico')),
]
I have checked all the settings for django.
CSS is loaded properly but no styling is visible on web page.
I stopped the server and made changes and start it again, but it didn't work.
The code:
<head>
<title>
fire
</title>
{% load staticfiles %}
<link href="{% static 'css/index2.css' %}"/>
</head>
{% load static %}
Note: better use load static instead of load staticfiles
Must be on the top of the html template
First must configure your static url
from django.conf import settings
from django.conf.urls.static import static
urlpatterns = [
# ... the rest of your URLconf goes here ...
] + static(settings.STATIC_URL, document_root=settings.STATIC_ROOT)
in settting.py
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static/')