I am hosting my Django application on a DigitalOcean droplet (Ubuntu 22.10 with Gunicorn and Nginx. When I run my app locally everything looks fine, but as soon as I deploy, it is trying to load the initial version of the compressed CSS file. The newer file lies correctly on the server.
Key files:
Settings.py
BASE_DIR = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR,"static")
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "media")
MEDIA_URL = '/media/'
DEBUG = False
urls.py
urlpatterns = [
...
] + static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT) + static(settings.STATIC_URL, document_root=settings.STATIC_ROOT)
_base.html
<head>
{% compress css %}
<link rel="stylesheet" href="{% static 'src/output.css' %}">
{% endcompress %}
...
</head>
Other static files and media files work fine, but if you open the website, Django serves an old version of the compressed output.css file.
see the live example here: https://gymtime.ch/
the template is trying to load https://gymtime.ch/static/CACHE/css/output.41dd2db47b39.css (404, does not exist anymore)
but the correct file that is used locally is on the server too: https://gymtime.ch/static/CACHE/css/output.e8979ce60e01.css
How can I ensure the template serves the current compressed CSS file?
Thanks for your support!
So I'm following this tutorial on serving staticfiles after collectstatic and after changing from {% load static %} to {% load staticfiles %}
AND adding
`
+ static(settings.STATIC_URL, document_root=settings.STATIC_ROOT)` to urls.py
AND adding
`
STATICFILES_FINDERS = [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]`
to the url pattern it still is not loading the static files. I tried using findstatic and it still tries to look in static instead of staticfiles. I would appreciate any help, I've tried reading the documentation and added everything but it refuses to look at staticfiles folder and goes to static.
https://scotch.io/tutorials/working-with-django-templates-static-files#toc-settings-for-managing-static-files
https://github.com/amos-o/djangotemplates
I'm learning Django 2.0
I have a ready-made template, that contains all assets in assets folder.All references in template starts from assets/..., and I'm gonna keep it: all links should looks like {% static 'assets/...' %}
My Django app has following structure:
myapp
├───manage.py
└───mysite
└───static/mysite/static/assets # some mess here?
└───templates/mysite/index.html
Inside index.html I'm using {% load static %},In settings I have just
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
but framework can't find path to assets. What I'm doing wrong?
UPD
{% load static %}
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{% static 'assets/css/bootstrap.min.css' %}">
If you want to use static file like.
CSS
JavaScript
Images
On Templates Use
{℅ load staticfiles %}
└───static/mysite/static/assets - You should to change this,**like bellow**
myapp
└───Assets
├───manage.py
└───mysite
└───mysite # your project files
└───templates/index.html
and also :
in your setting.py like this :
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATICFILES_DIRS = [
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'assets'),
]
and also : you need to change setting.py file 'DIRS': ['templates'],
or 'DIRS': ['myapp/templates']
For some reason that I can not figure out. Only some of my static files are not loading. They used to but not anymore.
The ones loaded with django-bower work fine, any others don't.
Is it possible django-bower broke it or have I missed something.
settings.py
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATICFILES_FINDERS = ('djangobower.finders.BowerFinder',)
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, '..', 'static')
STATICFILES_DIRS = (os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static'))
BOWER_COMPONENTS_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'components')
BOWER_INSTALLED_APPS = (
'jquery#1.9',
'knockout#3.3.0',
'knockout-mapping#2.0',
'bootstrap',
)
template:
{% load staticfiles %}
<link href="{% static 'css/styles.css' %}" rel="stylesheet">
project structure:
- project
- apps
- src
- static
- css
- styles.css
- media
You've replaced all staticfiles finders with only one, BowerFinder. This is no suprise that static files will be collected only from bower.
By default STATICFILES_FINDERS will contain:
(
"django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder",
"django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder",
)
If you still want to use that staticfiles finders, you must set them together with your BowerFinder.
Try as:
<link href="{{ STATIC_URL }}css/styles.css">
I have a template that renders an image:
{% load staticfiles %}
<img src="{% static "img/logo.png" %}" alt="My image"/>
The image link is broken, but it points to:
localhost/static/img/logo.png
What are values I need to set for static_root, static_url, and STATICFILES_DIRS to get this image to show up correctly?
This is my directory structure:
myprojectname (top level)
--- myprojectname
--- --- myproectname
--- --- --- settings
--- --- --- --- base.py (setting.py)
--- --- static
--- --- --- img
This is my static configuration in settings:
STATIC_ROOT = '/Users/myuser/myprojectname/myprojectname'
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATICFILES_DIRS = (
#normpath(join(SITE_ROOT, 'static')),
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "static"),
'/Users/myuser/myprojectname/myprojectname/static',
)
This is what it shows:
I have already done a collectstatic and this doesn't work.
Static files can be confusing in Django. I'll try to explain as simply as possible...
STATIC_ROOT
This is the directory that you should serve static files from in production.
STATICFILES_DIRS
This is the directory that you should serve static files from in development.
STATIC_ROOT and STATICFILES_DIRS cannot point to the same directory.
Django is a highly modular framework. Some application modules contain their own templates, css, images and JavaScript. Django admin is one such app. Django extends this modularity to applications you create by using different directories for static files in development versus production.
When DEBUG = True and you have included django.core.staticfiles in your INSTALLED_APPS, Django will serve the files located in the STATICFILES_DIRS tuple using the STATIC_URL path as the starting point.
In production this responsibility should be given to Nginx, Apache, CloudFront, etc. When DEBUG = False, Django will not automatically serve any static files.
When you run:
$ python manage.py collectstatic
The files specified in the STATICFILES_DIRS are copied into the STATIC_ROOT to be deployed.
So, to answer your question, I would do the following:
Create another directory to store your static files in development and add that path to your STATICFILES_DIRS. I usually call this folder "static-assets". It can reside at the same level as your existing "static" directory.
Set STATIC_ROOT to the path to your existing "static" directory.
If you look closely at the path that's returning a 404 in your screenshot, the image path is specified as: /static/img/logo.png, but your directory for images is: /static/image/
So double-check your image path to make sure you're pointing to the right directory.
Make folder "staticfiles" in root of your project where settings.py exists
In staticfiles you can go this way..
css
js
images
In settings.py
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(PROJECT_DIR,'static')
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATICFILES_DIRS = (
os.path.join(PROJECT_DIR,'staticfiles'), # if your static files folder is named "staticfiles"
)
TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
os.path.join(PROJECT_DIR,'template'), # if your static files folder is named "template"
)
In base.html
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{% static 'css/demo.css' %}" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="{% static 'js/jquery.min.js' %}"></script>
In other template files in which you include base.html
{% extends "base.html" %}
{% load static %}
<script type="text/javascript" src="{% static 'js/jquery.min.js' %}"></script>
<div id="yourID" class="yourClass">
<img src="{% static "images/something.gif" %}" alt="something" >
</div>
If you are in development mode then define just one line:
STATICFILES_DIRS = ( os.path.join('static'), )
You don't need to define STATIC_ROOT = '/Users/myuser/myprojectname/myprojectname'
OR
STATICFILES_DIRS as BASE_DIR
So, working solution is :
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATICFILES_DIRS = ( os.path.join('static'), )
actually I too was struggling with the same problem , it got resolved now , check javapoint documentation once its really good , another method that worked for me is change the path of static folder i.e place the static folder inside the app folder that u have created (in my case , the static folder is inside the first_app folder) . it should work . after that I relocated my folders back to where it was and to my surprise , it worked again!. sometimes it may be the fault of browser . I tried my level best to explain as I am a beginner in Django .
If you want to save static files in Django you will need to do the following
in settings.py file you will have something like this `
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATICFILES_DIRS = [
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'my_project/static') # where I want to host the static files i.e img, js & css
]
depends on how you have structure you files but you will need to have something like this in your urls.py
from django.contrib import admin
from django.urls import path, include
from django.conf.urls.static import static
from django.conf import settings
urlpatterns = [
path('', include('appfront.urls')),
path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
] + static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)
Final your template will have something like this Note the usage of static tag
{% load static %}
<!-- Navbar -->
<nav class="navbar navbar-expand-lg navbar-dark bg-primary sticky-top">
<div class="container">
<a class="navbar-brand" href="{% url 'index' %}">
<img src="{% static 'img/logo.png' %}" class="logo" alt="">
</a>
'''