Django favicon.ico in development? - django

Question

How can I serve favicon.ico in development? I could add a route in my urlconf, but I don't want that route to carry over to the production environment. Is there a way to do this in local_settings.py?

Answer 1

The easiest way would be to just put it in your static directory with your other static media, then specify its location in your html:
<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/png" href="{% static 'images/favicon.ico' %}"/>
My old answer was:
You can set up an entry in your urls.py and just check if debug is true. This would keep it from being served in production. I think you can just do similar to static media.
if settings.DEBUG:
urlpatterns += patterns('',
(r'^favicon.ico$', 'django.views.static.serve', {'document_root': '/path/to/favicon'}),
)
You also could just serve the favicon from your view.:
from django.http import HttpResponse
def my_image(request):
image_data = open("/home/moneyman/public_html/media/img/favicon.ico", "rb").read()
return HttpResponse(image_data, content_type="image/png")

Answer 2

This worked for me:
from django.conf.urls.static import static
...
if settings.DEBUG:
urlpatterns += static(r'/favicon.ico', document_root='static/favicon.ico')

Answer 3

From the docs:
from django.conf.urls.static import static
urlpatterns = patterns("",
# Your stuff goes here
) + static('/', document_root='static/')
There doesn't appear to be a way to serve a single static file, but at least this helper function is a wrapper which only works when DEBUG = True.

Answer 4

I use this:
from django import conf
from django.conf.urls import static
...
if conf.settings.DEBUG:
urlpatterns += static.static(
r"/favicon.ico", document_root=conf.settings.STATIC_ROOT / "favicon.ico"
)

Answer 5

Well, you can create your own loader.py file, which loads settings you want to override.
Loading this file should look like this:
try:
execfile(os.path.join(SETTINGS_DIR, 'loader.py'))
except:
pass
and be added at the end of settings.py.
This settings should not be commited into production server, only should appear on development machines. If you are using git, add loader.py into .gitignore.